About the Authors

Rui Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Chen, Min Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Min Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Chen, Min Xu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jason Nagati

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Joseph A. Garcia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

joseph.garcia@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.