About the Authors

Ting Cao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Wenchao Pan

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Ziyao Liang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Jingyu Quan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Miaona Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Huameng Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Long Fan

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xuhua Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

dryuxuhua@gzucm.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine/ Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.