About the Authors

Lin-Sheng Yang

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Zhi-Hua Zhang

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Liang Sun

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Fuyang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Fuyang, China

Ye-Huan Sun

sun611007@163.com (YS); anhuiydq@126.com (DY)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Dong-Qing Ye

sun611007@163.com (YS); anhuiydq@126.com (DY)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY DY. Performed the experiments: LY ZZ LS. Analyzed the data: LY YS LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY ZZ. Wrote the paper: LY ZZ.