About the Authors

Hong Xue

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Xue, Yang Wu

Affiliation Systems-oriented Global Childhood Obesity Intervention Program, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yang Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Xue, Yang Wu

Affiliation Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaoyu Wang

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Youfa Wang

youfawan@buffalo.edu

Affiliations Systems-oriented Global Childhood Obesity Intervention Program, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YFW HX YW. Performed the experiments: XW YW. Analyzed the data: YFW HX XW YW. Wrote the paper: YW HX XW YFW.