About the Authors

Yifan Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifan Guo, Yue Qiu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology and Nephropathy, Wangjing Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Yue Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yifan Guo, Yue Qiu

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

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Miyun Hospital District, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Taiqi Xue

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Nephropathy, Wangjing Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Pu Yan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Nephropathy, Wangjing Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Wenjing Zhao

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Mengdi Wang

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

znice3927@126.com (NZ); lc0625@bjmu.edu.cn (CL); wangmengdi@bjzhongyi.com (MW)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Cheng Liu

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

znice3927@126.com (NZ); lc0625@bjmu.edu.cn (CL); wangmengdi@bjzhongyi.com (MW)

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy, Program for Cancer and Cell Biology, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Ning Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

znice3927@126.com (NZ); lc0625@bjmu.edu.cn (CL); wangmengdi@bjzhongyi.com (MW)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Nephropathy, Wangjing Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.