About the Authors

Yi Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Ding, Qing Li, Yuan Xu

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Qing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Ding, Qing Li, Yuan Xu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Yuan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Ding, Qing Li, Yuan Xu

Affiliation Modern Medical Research Center, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Yuning Chen

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Yue Deng

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Feng Zhi

danielzhif@163.com (FZ); keqiandr@163.com (KQ)

Affiliation Modern Medical Research Center, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Ke Qian

danielzhif@163.com (FZ); keqiandr@163.com (KQ)

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FZ KQ. Performed the experiments: Y. Ding QL YX. Analyzed the data: Y. Ding QL YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC Y. Deng. Wrote the paper: Y. Ding FZ KQ.