About the Authors

Xulei Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xulei Tang, Lin Yang

xulei_tang@126.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Lin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xulei Tang, Lin Yang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Zhiyu He

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, the First Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Jingfang Liu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XT LY. Performed the experiments: LY ZH. Analyzed the data: LY ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XT. Wrote the paper: XT LY ZH JL.