About the Authors

Hongjiang Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Eric S. H. Lau

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Aimin Yang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Xinge Zhang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Baoqi Fan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Ronald C. W. Ma

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Alice P. S. Kong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Elaine Chow

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Wing-Yee So

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Juliana C. N. Chan

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Andrea O. Y. Luk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

andrealuk@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: R. C.W. M. is a Editorial Board member of Plos Medicine.