About the Authors

Kun Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun Guo, Xiaoye Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Xiaoye Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kun Guo, Xiaoye Zhang

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Experiment Center, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Simin Bai

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Halimatus Sakdiah Minhat

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ahmad Iqmer Nashriq Mohd Nazan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jianan Feng

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Xiuqin Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Guihua Luo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Xiaoping Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Jujun Feng

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Yingbo Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Mingyu Si

Roles Data curation

Affiliation School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Youlin Qiao

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Jing Ouyang

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

303199490@qq.com (JO); suhainizam@upm.edu.my (SS)

Affiliation College of Humanities and Management, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China

Suhainizam Saliluddin

Roles Writing – review & editing

303199490@qq.com (JO); suhainizam@upm.edu.my (SS)

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.