About the Authors

Zu-Yao Yang

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, The Hong Kong Branch of The Chinese Cochrane Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Jin-Qiu Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Qiu Yuan, Meng-Yang Di

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Meng-Yang Di

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Qiu Yuan, Meng-Yang Di

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Da-Yong Zheng

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Jin-Zhang Chen

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Hong Ding

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Xin-Yin Wu

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ya-Fang Huang

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Chen Mao

maochen@cuhk.edu.hk (CM); jltang@cuhk.edu.hk (JLT)

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, The Hong Kong Branch of The Chinese Cochrane Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory for Health Risk Analysis, Shenzhen Research Institute of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Jin-Ling Tang

maochen@cuhk.edu.hk (CM); jltang@cuhk.edu.hk (JLT)

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, The Hong Kong Branch of The Chinese Cochrane Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory for Health Risk Analysis, Shenzhen Research Institute of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Involved in the interpretation of the results: ZYY DYZ JZC JLT CM. Conceived and designed the experiments: JLT CM ZYY. Performed the experiments: ZYY JQY MYD DYZ JZC HD XYW YFH. Analyzed the data: ZYY. Wrote the paper: ZYY MYD JLT CM.