About the Authors

Yangbo Sun

Affiliation Lifestyle and Lifecourse Epidemiology Group, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, SAR, China

Chaoqiang Jiang

Affiliation Guangzhou Number 12 Hospital, Guangzhou, China

Kar Keung Cheng

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Weisen Zhang

Affiliation Guangzhou Number 12 Hospital, Guangzhou, China

Gabriel M. Leung

Affiliation Lifestyle and Lifecourse Epidemiology Group, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, SAR, China

Tai Hing Lam

hrmrlth@hkucc.hku.hk

Affiliation Lifestyle and Lifecourse Epidemiology Group, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, SAR, China

C. Mary Schooling

Affiliations Lifestyle and Lifecourse Epidemiology Group, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, SAR, China, School of Public Health, CUNY, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

CM Schooling is an associate editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS CMS GML. Performed the experiments: CQJ THL KKC WSZ. Analyzed the data: YS CMS GML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CQJ THL KKC WSZ. Wrote the paper: YS CMS. Gave final approval of the version to be published: YS CQJ KKC WSZ GML THL CMS.