About the Authors

Xuebing Feng

fengxuebing@hotmail.com (XF); lingyunsun@nju.edu.cn (LS)

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Wenyou Pan

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Huaian First People’s Hospital, Huaian, China

Lin Liu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, China

Min Wu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Fuwan Ding

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Yancheng Third People's Hospital, Yancheng, China

Huaixia Hu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Lianyungang Second People's Hospital, Lianyungang, China

Xiang Ding

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Lianyungang First People's Hospital, Lianyungang, China

Hua Wei

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital, Yangzhou, China

Yaohong Zou

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Wuxi People's Hospital, Wuxi, China

Xian Qian

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of TCM, Nanjing, China

Meimei Wang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Southeast University Zhongda Hospital, Nanjing, China

Jian Wu

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Juan Tao

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Wuxi TCM Hospital, Wuxi, China

Jun Tan

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Zhenjiang First People’s Hospital, Zhenjiang, China

Zhanyun Da

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, China

Miaojia Zhang

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China

Jing Li

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, China

Lingyun Sun

fengxuebing@hotmail.com (XF); lingyunsun@nju.edu.cn (LS)

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

On behalf of Jiangsu Lupus Collaborative Group

Membership of the Jiangsu Lupus Collaborative Group is provided in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XF, LS. Data curation: XF, WP, LL, M Wu, FD, HH, XD, HW, YZ, XQ, MWang, JW, JTao, JTan, ZD, MZ, JL, and other members of Jiangsu Lupus Collaborative Group. Formal analysis: XF. Funding acquisition: LS, XF. Investigation: XF, WP, LL, MWu, FD, HH, XD, HW, YZ, XQ, MWang, JW, JTao, JTan, ZD, MZ, JL, and other members of Jiangsu Lupus Collaborative Group. Methodology: XF, WP, LL, M Wu, FD, HH, XD, HW, YZ, XQ, M Wang, JW, J Tao, JTan, ZD, MZ, JL, LS. Project administration: LS, XF. Supervision: LS. Validation: XF, WP, LL, MWu, FD, HH, XD, HW, YZ, XQ, MWang, JW, JTao, JTan, ZD, MZ, JL, LS, and other members of Jiangsu Lupus Collaborative Group. Writing – original draft: XF. Writing – review & editing: XF, WP, LL, MWu, FD, HH, XD, HW, YZ, XQ, MWang, JW, JTao, JTan, ZD, MZ, JL, LS.