About the Authors

Xiaoni Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Acupuncture, Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Chengyong Liu

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Acupuncture Rehabilitation, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Shan Qin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Acupuncture Rehabilitation, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Chaoming Chen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Acupuncture, Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xiaoqiu Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Acupuncture Rehabilitation, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yuanyuan Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Wenzhong Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fsyy00664@njucm.edu.cn

Affiliations Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Acupuncture Rehabilitation, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.