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The patient population had very minimal fibrosis and overall low NAS at baseline, which may have potentially influenced the study results.

Furthermore, the assessor and main analyst (NTMN) was not blinded to group allocation and conducted the randomisation process before baseline, which may have contributed to ascertainment or performance biases.

We excluded frequent fallers, those who had three or more falls in the previous year, at the baseline, which may have led to underestimating the association between frailty and future fall risk.

Further, despite the randomisation, the control group had on average higher, though non significant, scores for the outcome measurements at baseline, which may have caused regression to the mean.

Consequently, those individuals were the adolescents with highest caries-activity and most filled surfaces at baseline, which may have limited the number of actual surfaces available for new obvious caries lesions over the study period.

Further, this is a prevalent cohort with various duration history at the first examination; therefore, very early cases of ESRD could have been missed, especially for those older at baseline, which may have underestimated differences between periods of diagnosis.

It is possible that some of the H. pylori positive subjects have been eradicated after baseline investigation which may have attenuated a potential association between H. pylori infection and pancreatic cancer to some extent.

In case of significant differences in baseline characteristics, which may have happen by chance as we only stratify randomization by sex and center, the primary outcome will additionally be tested using a multivariable binary logistic regression model to adjust for the following potential confounders: age, acute complicated pyelonephritis, underlying co-morbidity and the use of stepdown treatment.

Given that this study was observational in nature and did not feature a randomized design, we employed a propensity score analysis to control for differences in risk factors and baseline variables which may have influenced the selection of a particular technique.

Only a single measurement of HbA1c at baseline was available, which may have resulted in misclassification.

It is notable that most patients had preserved baseline kidney function, which may have limited the likelihood of hyperkalaemia and acute kidney injury, even among those exposed to renin-angiotensin system blockade using combination therapy.