About the Authors

Yifan Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifan Zhao, Ke Pu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations The First Clinical Medical College, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Gansu Province Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Ke Pu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifan Zhao, Ke Pu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Sichuan, China

Ya Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Gansu Province Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Yuping Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Gansu Province Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Jun Wang

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

zhouyn@lzu.edu.cn (YZ); ldyy_wangjun@lzu.edu.cn (JW)

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Gansu Province Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Yongning Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zhouyn@lzu.edu.cn (YZ); ldyy_wangjun@lzu.edu.cn (JW)

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Gansu Province Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.