About the Authors

Shaofan Weng

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaofan Weng, Lihua Wang

Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Shenzhen Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Disease, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Lihua Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaofan Weng, Lihua Wang

Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Shenzhen Baoan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Yi Rong

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yuewei Liu

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xin Wang

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Hongyu Guan

Affiliation Daye Iron Mine Hospital, Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation, Huangshi, Hubei, China

Weihong Chen

wchen@mails.tjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW LW YR YL XW HG WC. Performed the experiments: SW LW YR YL XW HG WC. Analyzed the data: SW LW YR YL XW HG WC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW WC. Wrote the paper: SW LW YR YL XW HG WC.