About the Authors

Qinjun Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinjun Li, Ying Shan, Jingchi Liao

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Xuzhou Municipal Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Ying Shan

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinjun Li, Ying Shan, Jingchi Liao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Renal Division, Department of Clinical Research Academy, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Jingchi Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qinjun Li, Ying Shan, Jingchi Liao

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Data Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Ling Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Xuzhou Municipal Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yanling Wei

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Renal Division, Department of Clinical Research Academy, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Liang Dai

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Renal Division, Department of Clinical Research Academy, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Sen Kan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Xuzhou Municipal Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Jianqing Shi

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Statistics and Data Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Department of Statistics and Data Science, National Center for Applied Mathematics, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Xiaoyan Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

luguoyuan@suda.edu.cn (GL); huangxiaoyan@pku.org.cn (XH)

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Renal Division, Department of Clinical Research Academy, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Guoyuan Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

luguoyuan@suda.edu.cn (GL); huangxiaoyan@pku.org.cn (XH)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.