About the Authors

Juan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Zhang, Jun Xie

Affiliations School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, Liyuan Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Jun Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Zhang, Jun Xie

Affiliation Liyuan Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Wanli Hou

Affiliation School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Xiaochen Tu

Affiliation School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Jing Xu

Affiliation School of Humanities, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

Fujian Song

Affiliation Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Zhihong Wang

lyyy_wzh@163.com (ZW); zuxunlu@yahoo.com (ZL)

Affiliation Liyuan Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Zuxun Lu

lyyy_wzh@163.com (ZW); zuxunlu@yahoo.com (ZL)

Affiliation School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ ZXL. Performed the experiments: JZ J. Xie XCT. Analyzed the data: JZ. Wrote the paper: JZ ZXL WLH FJS ZHW J. Xu. Contributed to the revising of the manuscript: JZ J. Xie ZHW J. Xu ZXL FJS.