About the Authors

Lingyun Cui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations The First School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR China, Key Laboratory of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Senile Diseases Control (Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, PR China

Nian Tong

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliations The First School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR China, Key Laboratory of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Senile Diseases Control (Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, PR China

Sicong Hou

Roles Writing – review & editing, Visualization

shou@yzu.edu.cn (SH); 090799@yzu.edu.cn (CY)

Current address: No.136 Jiangyang Middle Road, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China

Affiliations The First School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR China, Key Laboratory of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Senile Diseases Control (Yangzhou University), Yangzhou, PR China, Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Chun Yu

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

shou@yzu.edu.cn (SH); 090799@yzu.edu.cn (CY)

Current address: No.136 Jiangyang Middle Road, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.