About the Authors

Cheng Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Urology, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Urology, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China

Junjie Yu

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Urology, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Urology, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China

Taoze Ji

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Department of Urology, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Urology, Northern Jiangsu People’s Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China

Kai Zhao

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

zhaokai0702@outlook.com (KZ); dr.mq@foxmail.com (MC)

Affiliation Department of Urology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Mingquan Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

zhaokai0702@outlook.com (KZ); dr.mq@foxmail.com (MC)

Affiliations Department of Urology, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.