About the Authors

Xiaoting Wen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoting Wen, Ruihong Hou, Ke Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Ruihong Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoting Wen, Ruihong Hou, Ke Xu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Ke Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoting Wen, Ruihong Hou, Ke Xu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Yunxia Han

Roles Software

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital Affiliated to Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Junping Hu

Roles Software

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital Affiliated to Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Yan Zhang

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Yazhen Su

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Jinfang Gao

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Gailian Zhang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Liyun Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.