About the Authors

Yan Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation, The affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China

Xueqin Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China

Xu Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China

Ju Li

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

morrosun@hotmail.com, morrosun@njmu.edu.cn (KW); liju198461@njmu.edu.cn (JL)

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China

Kai Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

morrosun@hotmail.com, morrosun@njmu.edu.cn (KW); liju198461@njmu.edu.cn (JL)

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.