Deciphering the Efficacy and Mechanisms of Chinese Herbal Medicine for Diabetic Kidney Disease by Integrating Web-Based Biochemical Databases and Real-World Clinical Data: Retrospective Cohort Study

Chien-Wei Wu   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Hsing-Yu Chen   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , MD ;   Ching-Wei Yang   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Yu-Chun Chen   ^{4, 5, 6} , MSc, MD

¹ Division of Chinese Internal and Pediatric Medicine, Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

² School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

³ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁴ School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

⁵ Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

⁶ Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

*these authors contributed equally