About the Authors

Zhongyuan Cui

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

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Xia Lei

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Yani Gou

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Zhixian Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhixian Wu, Xiaojun Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

zxwu@xmu.edu.cn (ZW); huangxj@lzu.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Disease, 900th Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force (Dongfang Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University), Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Xiaojun Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhixian Wu, Xiaojun Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zxwu@xmu.edu.cn (ZW); huangxj@lzu.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.