About the Authors

Jian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Zhang, Beibei Zhang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of theory and application research of liver and kidney in traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Beibei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian Zhang, Beibei Zhang

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of theory and application research of liver and kidney in traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Haisong Feng

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

chongsheng996@gmail.com (CS); fenghaisong1986@163.com (HF)

Affiliations Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of theory and application research of liver and kidney in traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Chongxiao Sheng

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

chongsheng996@gmail.com (CS); fenghaisong1986@163.com (HF)

Affiliations Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of theory and application research of liver and kidney in traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.