About the Authors

Yaling Zhai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaling Zhai, Huijuan Tian

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, The Renal Research Institution of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Huijuan Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaling Zhai, Huijuan Tian

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, The Renal Research Institution of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Wenhui Zhang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, The Renal Research Institution of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Shuaigang Sun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, The Renal Research Institution of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Zhanzheng Zhao

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

zhanzhengzhao@zzu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, The Renal Research Institution of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.