About the Authors

Xiaopiao Wen

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yuan Liang

liangyuan217@163.com (YL); wut@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (TW)

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jiang Zhu

Affiliation Department of Health Care, Dongfeng Central Hospital, Dongfeng Motor Corporation and Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Tangchun Wu

liangyuan217@163.com (YL); wut@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (TW)

Affiliation 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 current study is part of the Tongji-Dongfeng Cohort Study, and the Funding and Conflict of interest of the cohort study have been declared in reference 30 “30. Wang F, Zhu J, Yao P, et al. (2012) Cohort profile: The Dongfeng–Tongji cohort study of retired workers, Int. J. Epidemiol Published Online First: April 24, 2012. doi: 10.1093/ije/dys053.” All the funder, including the commercial funder of The Dongfeng Motor Corporation, DMC, China, do not alter the authors' adherence to the journal‚s policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL TW. Performed the experiments: JZ YL TW. Analyzed the data: XW YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW YL. Wrote the paper: XW YL.