About the Authors

Denis Vinnikov

Contributed equally to this work with: Denis Vinnikov, Viktor Krasotski

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

denisvinnikov@mail.ru

Affiliations Occupational Health Risks Lab, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation, Environmental Health Science Lab, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Akylbek Saktapov

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ AS, ZR and AU also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Evidence-Based Medicine, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Zhanna Romanova

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

‡ AS, ZR and AU also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Evidence-Based Medicine, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Aliya Ualiyeva

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

‡ AS, ZR and AU also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Evidence-Based Medicine, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Viktor Krasotski

Contributed equally to this work with: Denis Vinnikov, Viktor Krasotski

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Medical Department, Kumtor Gold Company, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.