About the Authors

Ying Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Zhu, Xiaoshuang Ye, Bei Zhu, Xiaohua Pei

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Nephrology, Huai'an First People's Hospital, Huai'an, Jiangsu, China

Xiaoshuang Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Zhu, Xiaoshuang Ye, Bei Zhu, Xiaohua Pei

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Bei Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Zhu, Xiaoshuang Ye, Bei Zhu, Xiaohua Pei

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xiaohua Pei

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Zhu, Xiaoshuang Ye, Bei Zhu, Xiaohua Pei

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Lu Wei

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jianqing Wu

Affiliation Division of Respiration, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Weihong Zhao

zhaoweihong_1@medmail.com.cn

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ XY WZ JW. Performed the experiments: LW XP BZ. Analyzed the data: XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ. Wrote the paper: YZ.