About the Authors

Yan Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Cui, Shuang-Shuang Tian

‡These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Shuang-Shuang Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Cui, Shuang-Shuang Tian

‡These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, Department of Health Statistics, Taiyuan Xinghualing District Food & Drug Administration, Taiyuan, China

Nan Qiao

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Cong Wang

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Tong Wang

13835120380@163.com (TW); tmhjj1958@163.com (JJH)

Affiliations Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, Center for Postgraduate Education Innovation of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, China

Jian-Jun Huang

13835120380@163.com (TW); tmhjj1958@163.com (JJH)

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Datong Coal Mining Group, Taiyuan, China, Center for Postgraduate Education Innovation of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, China

Chen-Ming Sun

Affiliation Department of Urology, General Hospital of Datong Coal Mining Group, Taiyuan, China

Jie Liang

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Xiao-Meng Liu

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW JH CS NQ CW. Performed the experiments: NQ CW ST YC XL. Analyzed the data: YC ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC ST. Wrote the paper: YC JL.