About the Authors

Meian He

Contributed equally to this work with: Meian He, Huan Guo

Affiliations Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Huan Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Meian He, Huan Guo

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiaobo Yang

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiaomin Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Li Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Longxian Cheng

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Hesong Zeng

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Frank B. Hu

Affiliation Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert M. Tanguay

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Genetics, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and CREFSIP, Pavilion C.E. Marchand, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Tangchun Wu

wut@mails.tjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MaH HG XY LC RT TW. Performed the experiments: MaH HG XY XZ LZ HZ. Analyzed the data: MaH HG XY XZ LZ LC HZ FH TW. Wrote the paper: MaH HG XZ LZ LC FH RT TW.