About the Authors

Lingyan Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Second Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Shujian Xu

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Second Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Yuwen Song

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Medical Integration and Practice Center, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Dongqing Jiang

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

jiangdongqing@sina.com (DJ); chenshihong@sdu.edu.cn (SC)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Second Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Shihong Chen

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

jiangdongqing@sina.com (DJ); chenshihong@sdu.edu.cn (SC)

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Second Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, Multidisciplinary Innovation Center for Nephrology of the Second Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.