About the Authors

Jirui Bi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jirui Bi, Jin Yang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Jin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jirui Bi, Jin Yang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Cijiang Yao

Affiliation School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Jing Mei

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Ying Liu

Affiliation School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Jiyu Cao

Affiliation The Teaching Center for Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Youjin Lu

luyougolden@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JB JY YW Y. Lu. Data curation: JB JY. Formal analysis: JB JY CY Y. Liu. Funding acquisition: JY. Investigation: JB JY YW. Methodology: JB JY CY Y. Liu. Project administration: JY Y. Lu. Resources: JB JY YW. Software: JB CY Y. Liu. Supervision: YW JM. Validation: JY JC Y. Liu. Visualization: JY Y. Lu. Writing – original draft: JB. Writing – review & editing: JY JC Y. Lu.