About the Authors

Ying-Min Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Min Lin, Min Wang

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

Affiliation Department of General Practice, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Min Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Min Lin, Min Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

doctorminmin@163.com

Affiliations Department of General Practice, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China, Department of Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Nuan-Xin Sun

Roles Data curation, Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Jiangxi medical school, Nanchang University, Queen Mary University of London, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China

Yan-Yan Liu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Chengyang People’s Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

Teng-Fei Yin

Roles Data curation, Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Chen Chen

Roles Data curation, Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Chen Chen, Donga County people’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.