About the Authors

Ting Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Deng, Die Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Fuyong People’s Hospital of Baoan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Die Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Deng, Die Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine and Anorectology, Fuyong People’s Hospital of Baoan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Shan-shan Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Fuyong People’s Hospital of Baoan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Xing-lin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Empower U.X&Y Solutions Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhen-wei Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Fuyong People’s Hospital of Baoan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Lan-lang Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Haemodialysis, Fuyong People’s Hospital of Baoan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.