About the Authors

Yanbo Zhu

yanbo0722@sina.com

Affiliation School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Qi Wang

Affiliation School of Preclinical Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Guoming Pang

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Kaifeng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kaifeng, Henan, China

Lin Lin

Affiliation Department of Quality Management, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Hideki Origasa

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

Yangyang Wang

Affiliation School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Jie Di

Affiliation School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Mai Shi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Chunpok Fan

Affiliation School of Preclinical Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Huimei Shi

Affiliation School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YBZ. Performed the experiments: YBZ QW GMP. Analyzed the data: YBZ HO LL HMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YBZ. Wrote the paper: YBZ QW LL HO YYW JD MS CPF HMS.