About the Authors

Xiaojuan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojuan Chen, Yue Zhou

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Yue Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojuan Chen, Yue Zhou

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Xian Gao

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Yan Zhu

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Qi Cai

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Bianyu Yin

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

ZhiMin Sun

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Yaojia Xiong

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Yong Wang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dr_huangxiaobo@ntu.edu.cn (XH); wangboai2@163.com (YW)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Xiaobo Huang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dr_huangxiaobo@ntu.edu.cn (XH); wangboai2@163.com (YW)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.