About the Authors

Yan Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhu, Yi He

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, China

Yi He

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhu, Yi He

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, China

Hongyan Yang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, China

Yanbo Gao

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, China

Yan Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, China

Peiqing Liu

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

13948927878@139.com (PL); zmj_angel@126.com (MZ)

‡ PL and MZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, China

Mengjuan Zhang

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

13948927878@139.com (PL); zmj_angel@126.com (MZ)

‡ PL and MZ also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Baotou Central Hospital, Baotou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.