About the Authors

Xiaoyi Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyi Cao, Lin Chen, Yongshu Diao

Affiliation Hemodialysis Center, Department of Nephrology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Lin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyi Cao, Lin Chen, Yongshu Diao

Affiliation Hemodialysis Center, Department of Nephrology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Yongshu Diao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyi Cao, Lin Chen, Yongshu Diao

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Lang Tian

Affiliation Department of hepatobiliary surgery, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Wenjie Liu

Affiliation Department of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Xiaolian Jiang

xiaolian_jiang@126.com

Affiliation Department of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XYC XLJ YSD LC LT. Performed the experiments: XYC XLJ YSD LC LT WJL. Analyzed the data: XYC YSD LC XLJ LT WJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XYC YSD XLJ LC LT WJL. Wrote the paper: XYC YSD XLJ LC LT WJL.