About the Authors

Enbin Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Enbin Xu, Hailian Cao

xueb404@163.com

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, No.404 Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Weihai, Shandong, China

Hailian Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Enbin Xu, Hailian Cao

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, No.404 Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Weihai, Shandong, China

Liming Lin

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, No.404 Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Weihai, Shandong, China

Honglong Liu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, No.404 Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Weihai, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EX. Data curation: EX HC. Formal analysis: EX LL. Investigation: LL HL. Methodology: HC LL. Project administration: EX. Resources: EX. Software: LL HL. Supervision: EX. Validation: EX HL. Visualization: LL. Writing – original draft: EX. Writing – review & editing: EX.