About the Authors

Yong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Wang, Guoqiang Xie, Yuanhang Huang

Affiliation Division of Hemodialysis, CPLA 422 Hospital, Guangdong, China

Guoqiang Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Wang, Guoqiang Xie, Yuanhang Huang

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yuanhang Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Wang, Guoqiang Xie, Yuanhang Huang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, Guangdong, China

Han Zhang

Affiliation Department of Hepatic Surgery, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Bo Yang

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Zhiguo Mao

maozhiguo93@126.com

Affiliation Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW GX YH ZM. Analyzed the data: BY GX. Wrote the paper: YW HZ ZM. Searched the databases: YW YH. Study inclusion: YW GX ZM. Data collection: GX HZ. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: GX ZM.