About the Authors

Yepeng Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China, College of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China

Yaning Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China, College of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China

Feng Xiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China, College of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China

Min Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China, College of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China

Li Fu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China, College of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China

Qinxiu Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

zhangqinxiu@cdutcm.edu.cn

Affiliations Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China, College of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, CHN-56, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.