About the Authors

Sitong Wei

Roles Writing – original draft

☯ ST W and JZ contributed equally.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui, China

Jie Zhang

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

☯ ST W and JZ contributed equally.

Affiliation School of Public Health, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China

Shaoguang Ren

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui, China

Dongqing Ye

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

anhuiydq@126.com (DY); xinyufang@ahmu.edu.cn (XF)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui, China, School of Public Health, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Hefei, Anhui, China

Xinyu Fang

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anhuiydq@126.com (DY); xinyufang@ahmu.edu.cn (XF)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.