About the Authors

Xuqin Du

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Cure of Metabolic Diseases, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Lipeng Shi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

shilipeng0206@163.com (LS); caowenfu9316@163.com (WC)

Affiliations College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Cure of Metabolic Diseases, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Wenfu Cao

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

shilipeng0206@163.com (LS); caowenfu9316@163.com (WC)

Affiliations College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Cure of Metabolic Diseases, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Chinese Traditional Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Biao Zuo

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Cure of Metabolic Diseases, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Aimin Zhou

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular U nit, Traditional Chinese medicine hospital Dianjiang Chongqing, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.