About the Authors

Yu Zheng

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Qihong Sun

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China, Internal Medicine, Fushun Hospital of TCM, Liaoning, China

Kang Chen

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Wenhua Yan

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Changyu Pan

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Juming Lu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Jingtao Dou

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Zhaohui Lu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Ba Jianming

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Baoan Wang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Yiming Mu

muyiming@yeah.net

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM. Performed the experiments: YZ QS KC WY CP JL JD ZL JB BW. Analyzed the data: YZ QS KC WY. Wrote the paper: YZ QS KC WY YM.