About the Authors

Rui Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Qiu, Wen-ting Cao

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Wen-ting Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Qiu, Wen-ting Cao

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Hui-yuan Tian

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Juan He

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Geng-dong Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yu-ming Chen

chenyum@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YMC. Formal analysis: RQ. Funding acquisition: YMC. Investigation: RQ WTC HYT JH GDC. Methodology: YMC. Project administration: YMC. Supervision: YMC. Writing – original draft: RQ. Writing – review & editing: YMC.