About the Authors

Muhan LÜ

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhan LÜ, Shan Yu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Shan Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhan LÜ, Shan Yu

Current address: Department of Gastroenterology, Panzhihua Central Hospital, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Jiaqi Deng

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Qiong Yan

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Chun Yang

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Guodong Xia

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Xian Zhou

xianzhou2015@163.com

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

Luzhou technology bureau is a government department, and has no links to commercial organizations. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ML SY XZ. Data curation: ML SY XZ JD CY GdX QY. Formal analysis: ML SY XZ. Funding acquisition: ML SY XZ. Investigation: ML SY XZ. Methodology: ML SY XZ. Project administration: ML SY XZ. Resources: ML SY XZ JD CY GdX. Software: ML SY XZ JD CY GdX. Supervision: ML XZ. Validation: ML SY XZ. Visualization: ML SY XZ. Writing – original draft: ML SY XZ JD CY GdX. Writing – review & editing: ML SY XZ.