About the Authors

Xiaoqin Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqin Ye, Youcai Xu, Shanshan Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

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

Youcai Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqin Ye, Youcai Xu, Shanshan Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

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

Shanshan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqin Ye, Youcai Xu, Shanshan Wu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

Yu Peng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

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

Liwen Gao

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Foshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Foshan, Guangdong, China

Xi Huang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Lingfei Lu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Jiandong Lu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

lujiandong@yeah.net (JL); liuxinhui0317@163.com (XL)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Xinhui Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

lujiandong@yeah.net (JL); liuxinhui0317@163.com (XL)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.