About the Authors

Pianpian Xia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Research Center of Digestive Diseases, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases in Hunan Province, Changsha, Hunan, China

Feihong Deng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

dfh411@csu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Research Center of Digestive Diseases, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases in Hunan Province, Changsha, Hunan, China

Deliang Liu

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Research Center of Digestive Diseases, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases in Hunan Province, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.