About the Authors

Shan-shan Su

Affiliation Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Huan He

Affiliation Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Ling-bo Kong

Affiliation Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Yu-guo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Su-xian Zhao

Affiliation Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Rong-qi Wang

Affiliation Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Huan-wei Zheng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, The Fifth Hospital of Shijiazhuang City, Shijiazhuang, China

Dian-xing Sun

Affiliation Department of Liver Disease, Bethune International Peace Hospital, Shijiazhuang, China

Yue-min Nan

nanyuemin@163.com

Affiliation Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Jun Yu

Affiliation Institute of Digestive Disease and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YN HZ DS. Performed the experiments: SS HH LK YZ SZ RW. Analyzed the data: YN HZ DS. Wrote the paper: SS YN JY.