About the Authors

Yue-Yu Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue-Yu Gu, Min Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Min Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue-Yu Gu, Min Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Huan Cen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Yi-Fan Wu

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Zhaoyu Lu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Fuhua Lu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Xu-Sheng Liu

Roles Supervision

hylan@cuhk.edu.hk (HYL); liuxusheng@gzucm.edu.cn (XSL)

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Hui-Yao Lan

Roles Supervision

hylan@cuhk.edu.hk (HYL); liuxusheng@gzucm.edu.cn (XSL)

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.