Chinese herbal medicine for patients living with HIV in Guangxi province, China: A propensity score matching analysis of real-world data

• Jing Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Chen Shen

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of the Innovative Development of Functional Staple and the Nutritional Intervention for Chronic Disease, China National Research Institute of Food & Fermentation Industries Co,. Ltd, Beijing, China

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• Chen Shen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Li, Chen Shen

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5439-7133

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• Zhen-Wei Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AIDS Centre, Ruikang Hospital, Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Feng-Lan Pu ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ FLP and SHC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Shi-Huan Cao ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ FLP and SHC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Yue Zhang,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Minhang District, Shanghai, China

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• Xiao-Feng Han,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of the Innovative Development of Functional Staple and the Nutritional Intervention for Chronic Disease, China National Research Institute of Food & Fermentation Industries Co,. Ltd, Beijing, China

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• Peng Yuan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of the Innovative Development of Functional Staple and the Nutritional Intervention for Chronic Disease, China National Research Institute of Food & Fermentation Industries Co,. Ltd, Beijing, China

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• Sheng-Lin Duan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Beijing Key Laboratory of the Innovative Development of Functional Staple and the Nutritional Intervention for Chronic Disease, China National Research Institute of Food & Fermentation Industries Co,. Ltd, Beijing, China

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• Feng Jiang,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AIDS Centre, Ruikang Hospital, Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

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• Jian-Ping Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Liujp@bucm.edu.cn

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-4284

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