About the Authors

Jin-Hui Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Hui Tao, Miao Cheng, Jiang-Ping Tang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

tao2002055@126.com

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Miao Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Hui Tao, Miao Cheng, Jiang-Ping Tang

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Jiang-Ping Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Hui Tao, Miao Cheng, Jiang-Ping Tang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Xiao-Juan Dai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Yong Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Xiang-Pei Li

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Qin Liu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Ya-Ling Wang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology & Immunology, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.