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Abstract: aSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Level 1, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia bDivision of Sports Science & Physical Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China cKunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China dSchool of Pharmacy, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China Yuquan Chen, Yanwei You, Qi Zhang These authors have contributed equally to this work. Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding author. Address: Tel.: +86-191-6886-3889; Fax: +86-853-6886-3889. E-mail address: [email protected] (Qiang Cao). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/