About the Authors

Zhijun Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijun Tan, Zengchun Ye

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zengchun Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijun Tan, Zengchun Ye

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jun Zhang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yanru Chen

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Cailian Cheng

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Cheng Wang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xun Liu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Tanqi Lou

elizapeng10@gmail.com (HP); lou.tq@163.com (TL)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hui Peng

elizapeng10@gmail.com (HP); lou.tq@163.com (TL)

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HP TL. Data curation: ZT ZY. Formal analysis: ZT ZY. Investigation: ZT ZY. Methodology: HP. Project administration: HP TL. Resources: ZT ZY. Supervision: HP TL. Validation: ZT ZY. Visualization: ZT ZY. Writing – original draft: ZT ZY. Writing – review & editing: JZ YC CC CW XL.