About the Authors

Beixian Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Beixian Zhou, Jing Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau, China

Jing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Beixian Zhou, Jing Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Centre of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Xiaoli Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Centre of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zifeng Yang

jeffyah@163.com (ZFY); zhjiang@must.edu.mo (ZHJ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau, China, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Centre of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zhihong Jiang

jeffyah@163.com (ZFY); zhjiang@must.edu.mo (ZHJ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BXZ JL XLL ZFY ZHJ. Data curation: ZFY. Formal analysis: BXZ JL XLL ZFY. Funding acquisition: JL ZFY ZHJ. Investigation: BXZ JL XLL ZFY. Methodology: BXZ JL XLL ZFY. Project administration: JL ZFY ZHJ. Resources: ZFY ZHJ. Software: ZFY. Supervision: ZFY ZHJ. Validation: JL. Visualization: BXZ JL. Writing – original draft: BXZ JL XLL. Writing – review & editing: BXZ JL XLL ZFY.