About the Authors

Chenjian Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chenjian Qiu, Chengru Hu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Bay Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Suzhou, China

Chengru Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chenjian Qiu, Chengru Hu

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Bay Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Suzhou, China

Chengjie Lu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Bay Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Suzhou, China

Jingxian Shi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Bay Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Suzhou, China

Zhenguo Qiao

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Bay Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Suzhou, China

Yaping Wang

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Huishan Hospital of Xinglin College, Nantong University, Wuxi Huishan District People’s Hospital, Wuxi, China

Feidie Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Bay Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Suzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.