About the Authors

Xiaohuang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohuang Yang, Shaoxing Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology and Fujian Institute of Digestive Disease, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, Department of Gastroenterology, Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China

Shaoxing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohuang Yang, Shaoxing Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China

Canmei Zhong

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Fujian Institute of Digestive Disease, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Yadong Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

drchenfl@fjmu.edu.cn (FC); lyd0596@hotmail.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China

Fenglin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

drchenfl@fjmu.edu.cn (FC); lyd0596@hotmail.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Fujian Institute of Digestive Disease, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.