About the Authors

Xuan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuan Li, Hao Dong

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Gastroenterology, the First School of Clinical Medicine of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hao Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuan Li, Hao Dong

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, the Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing, China

Yifeng Zhang

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Gastroenterology, the First School of Clinical Medicine of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guoxin Zhang

guoxinz@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Gastroenterology, the First School of Clinical Medicine of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XL HD. Data curation: XL HD. Formal analysis: XL HD. Funding acquisition: GZ. Investigation: GZ. Methodology: YZ. Project administration: XL GZ. Resources: XL HD. Software: XL. Supervision: GZ. Validation: XL HD. Visualization: XL HD. Writing – original draft: XL. Writing – review & editing: XL HD.