About the Authors

Ping Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Liu, Jie Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, Hunan, China

Ruichao Niu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

nrc226@163.com (RN); chenjie869@163.com (JC); tyl71523@sina.com (YT); jtfeng1976@csu.edu.cn (JF)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jie Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Liu, Jie Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

nrc226@163.com (RN); chenjie869@163.com (JC); tyl71523@sina.com (YT); jtfeng1976@csu.edu.cn (JF)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yuling Tang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

nrc226@163.com (RN); chenjie869@163.com (JC); tyl71523@sina.com (YT); jtfeng1976@csu.edu.cn (JF)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, Hunan, China

Wenfang Tang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, Hunan, China

Linyan Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, Hunan, China

Juntao Feng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

nrc226@163.com (RN); chenjie869@163.com (JC); tyl71523@sina.com (YT); jtfeng1976@csu.edu.cn (JF)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.