We thank Shufang Liu and Wenquan Niu for their interest in our Article, which applied the clustering algorithm proposed by Ahlqvist and colleagues to patients with diabetes in the German Diabetes Study (GDS). We would like to respond to their comments on the methodological aspects of our study.

中文翻译：

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糖尿病人群和糖尿病相关疾病的风险-作者的回复。

我们感谢刘淑芳和牛文全对我们的文章的兴趣，该文章在德国糖尿病研究（GDS）中将Ahlqvist及其同事提出的聚类算法应用于糖尿病患者。我们想回应他们对我们研究方法论方面的评论。