About the Authors

Jieyun Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jieyun Yin, Yangkai Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yangkai Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jieyun Yin, Yangkai Li

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ming Yin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jingwen Sun

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Li Liu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Qin Qin

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xiaorong Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Lu Long

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shaofa Nie

ws2008cn@gmail.com (SW); sf_nie@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (SN)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Sheng Wei

ws2008cn@gmail.com (SW); sf_nie@mails.tjmu.edu.cn (SN)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SFN SW. Performed the experiments: QQ XRL L. Long. Analyzed the data: JYY YKL L. Liu. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWS MY. Wrote the paper: JYY YKL SW.