About the Authors

Jing Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Luo, Biying Dong

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Biying Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jing Luo, Biying Dong

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Ke Wang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Shuangqi Cai

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Tangjuan Liu

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Xiaojing Cheng

Affiliation Life Sciences Institute of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Danqing Lei

Affiliation Life Sciences Institute of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Yanling Chen

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Yanan Li

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Jinliang Kong

kjl071@126.com (JK); chenyiq0708@163.com (YC)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Yiqiang Chen

kjl071@126.com (JK); chenyiq0708@163.com (YC)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Qingxiu, Nanning, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JLK YQC. Data curation: JLK YQC. Formal analysis: JL BYD KW. Investigation: JL BYD TJL YLC YNL. Methodology: JL JLK YQC. Project administration: JLK YQC. Resources: JL BYD SQC XJC DQL. Software: JL BYD SQC XJC DQL. Supervision: JLK YQC. Validation: JLK YQC. Visualization: JL JLK YQC. Writing – original draft: JL JLK YQC. Writing – review & editing: JL JLK YQC.