About the Authors

Kuanfeng Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuanfeng Xu, Xiaoyun Liu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xiaoyun Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuanfeng Xu, Xiaoyun Liu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Fan Yang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Dai Cui

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yun Shi

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Chong Shen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Wei Tang

yangt@njmu.edu.cn (TY); drtangwei@aliyun.com (WT)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Jiangyin People’s Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Tao Yang

yangt@njmu.edu.cn (TY); drtangwei@aliyun.com (WT)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KX WT TY. Performed the experiments: KX XL FY. Analyzed the data: KX XL DC CS WT TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KX XL YS. Wrote the manuscript: KX.