About the Authors

Yifan Xie

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Yuanzheng Ding

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Yuli Gao

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation The First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Ke Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation The First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Yubo Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation The First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Lei Li

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation The First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Ying Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation School of Public Health, MOE Key Laboratory of Coal Environmental Pathogenicity and Prevention, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Jin Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Shujing Li

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Liangpo Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation School of Public Health, MOE Key Laboratory of Coal Environmental Pathogenicity and Prevention, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Yi Gao

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

ivygao@sxmu.edu.cn (YG); liujing5585@163.com (JL)

Affiliation School of Public Health, MOE Key Laboratory of Coal Environmental Pathogenicity and Prevention, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Jing Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

ivygao@sxmu.edu.cn (YG); liujing5585@163.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests.