About the Authors

Ying-ying Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-ying Gong, Yuan-yuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yuan-yuan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-ying Gong, Yuan-yuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Jin Li

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Lei Su

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Shuang Yu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiao-nan Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Zhong-shan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiao-pei Cao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Hai-peng Xiao

xiaohp@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YYG HPX XPC. Performed the experiments: YYG YYL JL LS XNZ. Analyzed the data: YYG YYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPX. Wrote the paper: YYG YYL HPX SY.