About the Authors

Yang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Xu, Wenli Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Nankai Hospital, Tianjin Academy of Integrative Medicine, Tianjin, China

Wenli Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang Xu, Wenli Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of Neurology, Nankai Hospital, Tianjin Academy of Integrative Medicine, Tianjin, China

Te Li

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Hearing Impairment Specialist Hospital, Tianjin, China

Ye Zhao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Huaien Bu

Roles Project administration, Software, Supervision

buhuaien@163.com (HB); haiguagua@163.com (SS)

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Shilin Song

Roles Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

buhuaien@163.com (HB); haiguagua@163.com (SS)

Affiliation Laboratory of Anatomy, School of Integrative Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.