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Xuerui Li1, Ruixue Song2, Xiuying Qi2

  • 1From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (X.L., R.S., X.Q., W.Y., W.X.), School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environment, Nutrition and Public Health (X.L., R.S., X.Q., W.Y., W.X.); Center for International Collaborative Research on Environment, Nutrition and Public Health (X.L., R.S., X.Q., W.Y., W.X.), Tianjin; Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (R.S.), Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine of Shandong University, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan; Big Data and Engineering Research Center (H.X.), Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, China; Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research (M.K.), and Aging Research Center (W.X.), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet; Theme Aging (M.K.), Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Ageing and Epidemiology (AGE) Research Unit (M.K.), School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; and Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (D.A.B.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL. weili.xu@ki.se qixiuying@tmu.edu.cn.

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