About the Authors

Chen Huang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jiong Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Ministry of Education-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children’s Environmental Health, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Clinical Medicine—Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Guoyou Qin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Zeyan Liew

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric, and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale School of Public, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jing Hu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Krisztina D. László

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Fangbiao Tao

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Population Health & Aristogenics, Hefei, China

Carsten Obel

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section for General Medical Practice, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Jørn Olsen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine—Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Yongfu Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yu@fudan.edu.cn, yoyu@clin.au.dk

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, and The Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Clinical Medicine—Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: during the past five years KL received research grants from the Swedish Council of Working Life and Social Research, Heart and Lung Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Research Foundation, Clas Groschinsky Memorial Foundation and the Swedish Society of Medicine.