About the Authors

Ke-Cheng Li

Roles Writing – original draft

‡ K-CL and Z-JB contributed equally and share first authorship

Affiliation Department of Andrology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Zhi-Jun Bu

Roles Writing – original draft

‡ K-CL and Z-JB contributed equally and share first authorship

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Md. Shahjalal

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bai-Xiang He

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Zi-Fan Zhuang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Chen Li

Roles Software

Affiliation Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shannxi, China

Jian-Ping Liu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Bin Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

lzl1019@163.com (Z-LL); dayiwangbin@sina.com (BW)

Affiliation Department of Andrology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Zhao-Lan Liu

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lzl1019@163.com (Z-LL); dayiwangbin@sina.com (BW)

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.