About the Authors

Shaoguang Ren

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, 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

Peng Gao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Sitong Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

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

Yang Cui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

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 Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, 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 Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, 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.