About the Authors

Qiong Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiong Wu, Jun Jiang, Zhuofan Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Jun Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiong Wu, Jun Jiang, Zhuofan Li

Roles Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Anhui Medical College, Hefei, China

Zhuofan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiong Wu, Jun Jiang, Zhuofan Li

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Xin Ling

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Zhenguo Qiao

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

qzg66666666@163.com (ZQ); kelema917@sina.com (YM)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, Suzhou Ninth Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Yimin Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

qzg66666666@163.com (ZQ); kelema917@sina.com (YM)

Affiliation Departments of Gastroenterology, Gaochun People’s Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.