About the Authors

Shunfa Hao

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors contributed equally as joint senior authors

Affiliations Department of Encephalopathy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China, The First Clinical Medical School, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

Renyi Qian

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

‡ These authors contributed equally as joint senior authors

Affiliation Department of Encephalopathy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

Yiru Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

‡ These authors contributed equally as joint senior authors

Affiliations Department of Encephalopathy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China, The First Clinical Medical School, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

Jingfang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Encephalopathy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China, The First Clinical Medical School, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

Xiaoyan Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Encephalopathy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

Yunxiang Guan

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Encephalopathy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.