About the Authors

Rui Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zeng, Yan Xiong

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yan Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Zeng, Yan Xiong

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Division of Nephrology, Wuhan No.4 hospital, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fengming Zhu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zufu Ma

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wenhui Liao

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yong He

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Division of Nephrology, Wuhan No.5 hospital, Wuhan, Hubei, China

JinSeng He

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wei Li

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Juan Yang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Qian Lu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Gang Xu

yaoyingkk@126.com (YY); xugang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (GX)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ying Yao

yaoyingkk@126.com (YY); xugang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (GX)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RZ GX YY. Performed the experiments: RZ YX FMZ. Analyzed the data: RZ YX FMZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZFM WHL YH JSH WL JY QL. Wrote the manuscript: RZ YX.