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Following publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that the conflict of interest declaration was incomplete. Co-authors Dr Y Gao, Dr C Wei and Dr Y Wu are employees of Yiling Medical Research Institute, a subsidiary research organisation of Yiling Pharmaceuticals and therefore are employees of Yiling Pharmaceuticals.