About the Authors

Qian Wang

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

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Min Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Shipeng Shen

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Yao Hu

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Yongzhe Chen

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Changchang Liang

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Ke Yu

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Ying Li

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Yanqing Chi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

37300757@hebmu.edu.cn (YC); 38700843@hebmu.edu.cn (LB)

☯ These authors contributed equally as corresponding authors.

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Lu Bai

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

37300757@hebmu.edu.cn (YC); 38700843@hebmu.edu.cn (LB)

☯ These authors contributed equally as corresponding authors.

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, Hebei Key Laboratory of Diabetic Kidney Disease, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflicts of interest related to this study.