Diabetes is one of common endocrine and metabolic disorder diseases, and it leads to multiple complications causing uncountable suffering and incalculable economic losses to worldwide patients. 1 Globally, the number of people with diabetes mellitus has quadrupled in the past three decades. About 1 in 11 adults now have diabetes mellitus, and 90% of them are type 2 diabetes. 2 Diabetes has increasingly become a global problem to be solved urgently.
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