About the Authors

Chongke Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Chongke Zhong, Liying Lv

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Liying Lv

Contributed equally to this work with: Chongke Zhong, Liying Lv

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Xinganmeng People's Hospital, Xinganmeng, Inner Mongolia, China

Changjiang Liu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Fuxin Center Hospital, Fuxin, LiaoNing, China

Liang Zhao

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University, Chengde, HeBei, China

Mo Zhou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Wenjie Sun

Affiliations School of Food Science, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Zhongshan, China, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Tan Xu

xutan@suda.edu.cn (TX); tongweijun@suda.edu.cn (WT)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Weijun Tong

xutan@suda.edu.cn (TX); tongweijun@suda.edu.cn (WT)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ MZ WT TX. Performed the experiments: CZ MZ WT. Analyzed the data: CZ LL WT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL CL LZ. Wrote the paper: CZ LL WS.