About the Authors

Ya-Fei Liu

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

yafeiliutjh@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Zhe Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Xiao-Li Pan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Acupuncture and Orthopedics, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Guo-Lan Xing

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Ying Zhang

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Zhang-Suo Liu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Sheng-Hao Tu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.