About the Authors

Dang Wei

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dang.wei@ki.se

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

Imre Janszky

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Fang Fang

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Hua Chen

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Rickard Ljung

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden

Jiangwei Sun

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jiong Li

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Krisztina D. László

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: KDL received research grants from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, the Karolinska Institutet’s Research Foundation, the Clas Groschinsky Memorial Foundation and the Swedish Society of Medicine during the past five years. RL is employed at the Swedish Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent the views of the Government agency. The remaining authors have nothing to disclose.