About the Authors

Yang Zhao

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hao Yu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ying Zhu

Affiliation Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Monica Ter-Minassian

Affiliation Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhihang Peng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hongbing Shen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Nancy Diao

Affiliation Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Feng Chen

fengchen@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y. Zhao HS FC. Performed the experiments: Y. Zhao HY Y. Zhu. Analyzed the data: Y. Zhao Y. Zhu ZP. Wrote the paper: Y. Zhao MT ND.