About the Authors

Jiankun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiankun Wang, Yuwen Tao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University & Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China

Yuwen Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiankun Wang, Yuwen Tao

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University & Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China

Rui Wu

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University & Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China

Lili Zhao

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University & Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China

Li Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University & Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China

Zhining Fan

Roles Validation

fanzhining@njmu.edu.cn (ZF); drwentao@126.com (WF)

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University & Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China

Wentao Fan

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fanzhining@njmu.edu.cn (ZF); drwentao@126.com (WF)

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University & Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China, Gastroenterology Department, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.