About the Authors

Yujie Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yujie Jiang, Chengji Cui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China

Chengji Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Yujie Jiang, Chengji Cui

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China

He Nan

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China

Tianying Chang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China

Fan Li

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China

Shoulin Zhang

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

shoulin-z@163.com

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.