“…The sample size of these trials ranged from 10 to 245 patients. Fourteen trials were nonrandomized, prospective observational studies, [16,19,22–25,27,28,33,37,39,41,45,47] 18 were retrospective cohort studies, [17,18,20,21,26,29–32,34–36,38,40,42–44,46] and 1 was a prospective RCT. [48] The improvement or remission of diabetes and hypertension is recorded in different follow-up periods, and all patients were followed for less than 4 years.…”