About the Authors

Kaiqi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaiqi Chen, Cai Tang

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

Cai Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaiqi Chen, Cai Tang

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chongqing City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China

Yunhua Li

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation College of Education, Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences, Chengdu, China

Danping Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chongqing City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China

Xijian Zhang

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chongqing City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China

Shikui Cui

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chongqing City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China

Zhixi Zhu

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chongqing City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China

Fang Fang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

fnf7703@163.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Chongqing City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.