About the Authors

Riming He

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

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Yijiao Liao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Ling Men

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Jiahui Liu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Zhongtang Li

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Ruopu Xue

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Jiabing Lu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Kun Bao

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

baokun@aliyun.com (KB); rainlucy@126.com (YZ); shudong_yang@126.com (SY)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Dampness Syndrome of Chinese Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine for Prevention and Treatment of Refractory Chronic Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Nephrology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Youjia Zeng

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

baokun@aliyun.com (KB); rainlucy@126.com (YZ); shudong_yang@126.com (SY)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Shudong Yang

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

baokun@aliyun.com (KB); rainlucy@126.com (YZ); shudong_yang@126.com (SY)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.