About the Authors

Cheng Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Fang, Zhi-Yuan Jian

Affiliation Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zhi-Yuan Jian

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Fang, Zhi-Yuan Jian

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Xian-Feng Shen

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Xue-Mei Wei

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637000, P.R. China

Guo-Zheng Yu

Affiliation Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Xian-Tao Zeng

zengxiantao1128@163.com

Affiliation Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XTZ CF. Performed the experiments: XFS GZY XMW. Analyzed the data: CF ZYJ XTZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XTZ. Wrote the paper: CF ZYJ.