About the Authors

Lingling Bian

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Bian, Chun Yang, Yanjun Jin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Endocrinology, The First people’s Hospital of Yancheng, Yancheng, China

Chun Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Bian, Chun Yang, Yanjun Jin

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yanjun Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lingling Bian, Chun Yang, Yanjun Jin

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hong Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Min Zhu

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jingjing Xu

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jianling Bai

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Heath, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Mei Zhang

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yanmei Liu

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First people’s Hospital of Yancheng, Yancheng, China

Tao Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

yangt@njmu.edu.cn; yong.gu@njmu.edu.cn; shipinliuhechun@163.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yong Gu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation

yangt@njmu.edu.cn; yong.gu@njmu.edu.cn; shipinliuhechun@163.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hechun Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation

yangt@njmu.edu.cn; yong.gu@njmu.edu.cn; shipinliuhechun@163.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.