About the Authors

Chun-Ping Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China, Discipline of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine in Guangzhou University of Chinese medicine, Guangzhou, China

Xian Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China

Qing-Long Tan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China

Wen-Xing Xu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China

Chang-Yuan Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China

Min Luo

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China

Xiong Li

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China

Run-Yue Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

zengxing-china@163.com (XZ); ry_huang@hotmail.com (RYH)

Affiliations Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China, Discipline of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine in Guangzhou University of Chinese medicine, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, Guangzhou, China

Xing Zeng

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zengxing-china@163.com (XZ); ry_huang@hotmail.com (RYH)

Affiliations Department of Integrated Chinese medicine immunization and Section Rheumatology Research, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China, Discipline of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine in Guangzhou University of Chinese medicine, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.