About the Authors

Yuan Yang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Fan Zhang

Affiliation School of Public Health and Health Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Laura Skrip

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yang Wang

Affiliation School of Public Health and Health Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Shengchun Liu

liushengchun1968@126.com

Affiliation Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL YY. Performed the experiments: YY FZ. Analyzed the data: YY FZ YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY FZ LS. Wrote the paper: YY FZ LS SL.