About the Authors

Longying Zha

lyzha@smu.edu.cn (LZ); caow@unc.edu (WC)

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jiading Chen

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Suxia Sun

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Limei Mao

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Xinwei Chu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Hong Deng

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Junwei Cai

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China, Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Xuefeng Li

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Zhenqi Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Wenhong Cao

lyzha@smu.edu.cn (LZ); caow@unc.edu (WC)

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China, Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ J. Chen SS LM XC HD J. Cai XL ZL WC. Performed the experiments: LZ J. Chen. Analyzed the data: LZ WC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ J. Cai SS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LZ WC.