About the Authors

Feng Xie

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Baoqin Yang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Zeng Yan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Yong Shen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Hui Qin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Li Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Tiantian Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Jigui Chen

Roles Validation

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Shaihong Zhu

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Fei Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Xiong, Xulong Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

brrhsyxndx@163.com (XS); feixiongg@foxmail.com (FX)

Affiliation Bariatric and Metabolic Medicine Center, The Eighth Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

Xulong Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Xiong, Xulong Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

brrhsyxndx@163.com (XS); feixiongg@foxmail.com (FX)

Affiliation Department of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.