About the Authors

Lei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Liu, Yanyan Cao

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Yanyan Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Liu, Yanyan Cao

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Guanglin Cui

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Zongzhe Li

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Jing Sun

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Lina Zhang

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Chen Chen

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Yan Wang

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Peihua Wang

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Hu Ding

dwwang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (DWW); huding@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (HD)

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Dao Wen Wang

dwwang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (DWW); huding@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (HD)

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HD DWW. Performed the experiments: LL GC ZL JS LZ. Analyzed the data: LL YC. Reviewed/edited manuscript and contributed to the scientific ideas: YC CC YW PW. Wrote the paper: LL HD.