About the Authors

Jian-bin Su

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China, Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Xiao-hua Yang

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China, Department of Endocrinology, The Affiliated Haian Hospital of Nantong University, Haian, China

Xiu-lin Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Hong-li Cai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Hai-yan Huang

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Li-hua Zhao

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Feng Xu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Tong Chen

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Xing-bo Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

xingbo1107@sohu.com (XC); wangxueqin@medmail.com.cn (XW); lucia1817@163.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Xue-qin Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

xingbo1107@sohu.com (XC); wangxueqin@medmail.com.cn (XW); lucia1817@163.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Yan Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

xingbo1107@sohu.com (XC); wangxueqin@medmail.com.cn (XW); lucia1817@163.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.