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Effects of lifestyle interventions on rural patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Bo Wang, Xiao-Li Mu, Juan Zhao, Hai-Ping Jiang, Shan-Shan Li, Ge Yan, Ying-Ying Hua, Xue-Yi Ren, Li-Xia Xing, Yan Liang, Shu-Dong Zhang, Yu-Chi Zhao
Bo Wang, Xiao-Li Mu, Juan Zhao, Hai-Ping Jiang, Shan-Shan Li, Ge Yan, Ying-Ying Hua, Xue-Yi Ren, Li-Xia Xing, Yan Liang, Shu-Dong Zhang, Department of Internal Medicine, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai 264025, Shandong Province, China
Yu-Chi Zhao, Department of Osteoarthropathy, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai 264025, Shandong Province, China
Author contributions: Zhao YC put forward the concept of the study; Zhao YC and Wang B designed the research study; Wang B, Zhao J, Mu XL, and Zhang SD performed the research; Li SS, Hua YY, Ren XY, and Liang Y contributed new reagents and analytic tools; Jiang HP, Yan G, and Xing LX analyzed the data; Wang B wrote the manuscript; all authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was deemed eligible by the Clinical Trial Ethics Committee of Yantaishan Hospital.
Informed consent statement: Informed written consent was obtained from the patients.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no actual or potential conflicts of interest to declare.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Yu-Chi Zhao, MD, Chief Doctor, Department of Osteoarthropathy, Yantaishan Hospital, No. 91, Jiefang Road, Zhifu District, Yantai 264001, Shandong Province, China. zhaoyuchizyc@163.com
Received: December 26, 2019
Peer-review started: December 26, 2019
First decision: February 19, 2020
Revised: March 30, 2020
Accepted: May 5, 2020
Article in press: May 5, 2020
Published online: June 15, 2020
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