About the Authors

Lingzhi Li

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

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Min Shi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Stephen Salerno

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Minghai Tang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Fan Guo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Jing Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Yanhuan Feng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Martina Fu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Qinwan Huang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Liang Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

liang_m@scu.edu.cn (LM); fupinghx@scu.edu.cn (PF).

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Yi Li

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Ping Fu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

liang_m@scu.edu.cn (LM); fupinghx@scu.edu.cn (PF).

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, Kidney Research Institute, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.