About the Authors

Qing Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Peng, Xixi Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China, Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Xixi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing Peng, Xixi Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China

Yaxin Han

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, The People’s Hospital of Wenjiang, Chengdu, China

Guo Tang

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Department of Nephrology, The People’s Hospital of Bishan District, Chongqing City, China

Jiajun Liu

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

Yan Liu

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

Qiao Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

22922934@qq.com (QZ); llllyyyy2012@sina.com (LL)

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China

Li Long

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

22922934@qq.com (QZ); llllyyyy2012@sina.com (LL)

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences Sichuan Translational Medicine Research Hospital, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.