About the Authors

Bin Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Gao, Jie Zhou, Jiapu Ge

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Jie Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Gao, Jie Zhou, Jiapu Ge

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Jiapu Ge

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Gao, Jie Zhou, Jiapu Ge

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Xinjiang Uger Autonamy People's Hospital, Urumuqi, Xinjiang, China

Yaping Zhang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Fei Chen

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Wayne B. Lau

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yi Wan

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Nanyan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Ying Xing

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Jianfang Fu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Xiaomiao Li

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Hongxia Jia

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Xin Zhao

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Qiuhe Ji

jqiuhe@fmmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG JZ JPG QHJ. Performed the experiments: YPZ FC NYZ JFF XML XZ. Analyzed the data: WBL YW HXJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX LW. Wrote the paper: BG JZ.