About the Authors

Ruoling Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruoling Chen, Yiqing Song, Zhi Hu

ruoling.chen@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Health Administration, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King’s College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom

Yiqing Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruoling Chen, Yiqing Song, Zhi Hu

Affiliation Institute of Vascular Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China

Zhi Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruoling Chen, Yiqing Song, Zhi Hu

Affiliation School of Health Administration, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Eric John Brunner

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC YS. Performed the experiments: RC ZH. Analyzed the data: RC EJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC YS ZH EJB. Wrote the paper: RC YS ZH EJB.