About the Authors

Chih-Da Wu

Affiliations Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan, Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Eileen McNeely

Affiliation Environmental Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

J. G. Cedeño-Laurent

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Wen-Chi Pan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America

Gary Adamkiewicz

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Francesca Dominici

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Shih-Chun Candice Lung

Affiliations Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Huey-Jen Su

hjsu@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

John D. Spengler

Affiliation Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CDW EM JGCL JDS. Analyzed the data: CDW JGCL WCP GA. Wrote the paper: CDW EM WCP. Provided comments on manuscript: FD SCCL HJS.