About the Authors

Ti Zhang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jiao Lou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Rong Zhong

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jing Wu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Li Zou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yu Sun

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xuzai Lu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Li Liu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaoping Miao

weixiong@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (GX); miaoxp@gmail.com (XM)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Guanglian Xiong

weixiong@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (GX); miaoxp@gmail.com (XM)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Gave suggestions and recommendations on revising the manuscript: YS XL. Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ XM GX. Performed the experiments: TZ. Analyzed the data: LZ RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL JW JL. Wrote the paper: TZ.