About the Authors

Bao-Zhu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Bao-Zhu Li, Nv-Wei Cao

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lbz88730@163.com

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Major Autoimmune Diseases, Hefei, Anhui, China

Nv-Wei Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bao-Zhu Li, Nv-Wei Cao

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Major Autoimmune Diseases, Hefei, Anhui, China

Chun-Xia Ren

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

Xiu-Jie Chu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Major Autoimmune Diseases, Hefei, Anhui, China

Hao-Yue Zhou

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Major Autoimmune Diseases, Hefei, Anhui, China

Biao Guo

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Human Resource, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anhui, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.