About the Authors

Daqing Nie

Contributed equally to this work with: Daqing Nie, Guixin Yan, Wenyu Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Rheumatic Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China

Guixin Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Daqing Nie, Guixin Yan, Wenyu Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation The Innovation Practice Center, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China

Wenyu Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Daqing Nie, Guixin Yan, Wenyu Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, The Fourth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Zhengyi Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation College of Nursing and Health Science, Nanfang Medical College of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Guimei Yu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatic Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China

Di Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatic Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China

Na Yuan

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatic Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China

Hongbo Li

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hongbolicc@163.com

Affiliation Department of Rheumatic Disease, The Third Clinical Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.