About the Authors

Shun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shun Zhang, Rui Liu, Zhengjie Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Chengdu, China, Department of Gastroenterology, Chengdu Integrated TCM & Western Medicine Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Rui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shun Zhang, Rui Liu, Zhengjie Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Chengdu Integrated TCM & Western Medicine Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Zhengjie Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Shun Zhang, Rui Liu, Zhengjie Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Chengdu, China, Department of Gastroenterology, Chengdu Integrated TCM & Western Medicine Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Tao Pan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

pant414@163.com (TP); xudongwen@cdutcm.edu.cn (XW)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Chengdu Integrated TCM & Western Medicine Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Xudong Wen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

pant414@163.com (TP); xudongwen@cdutcm.edu.cn (XW)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Chengdu Integrated TCM & Western Medicine Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.