About the Authors

Bin Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Lu, Ji Hu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ji Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Lu, Ji Hu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Jiangsu, China

Jian Wen

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Jiangsu, China

Zhaoyun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Linuo Zhou

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yiming Li

doctor_yimingli@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Endocrinology, Jing’An District Centre Hospital of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Renming Hu

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Researched data and wrote the manuscript: BL JH. Researched data and contributed to discussion: JW. Contributed to discussion: ZYZ LNZ. Wrote, reviewed, and edited the manuscript: YML RMH. Conceived and designed the experiments: BL JH YML RMH. Performed the experiments: BL JH JW ZYZ LNZ YML RMH. Analyzed the data: BL JH.