Ma et al. BMC Public Health 2012, 12:568 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/568 Authors’ contributions J-QM performed the acquisition of data, analysis of data and drafted the paper. L-LZ, Y-Q H and J-RL participated in the design of study, acquisition of data; S-SL and JZ contributed to the acquisition of data. X-YS was the chief of the study and responsible for the whole project, revising the paper and approving the final version to be submitted. All authors have read and have approved the manuscript as submitted. Acknowledgements and funding This study was funded by Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (No.11DZ2260500), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81172686). We thank the staff at the department of Child Healthcare in Kongjiang Community Health Center for their assistance in our acquisition of data and in finishing the questionnaire. Received: 19 April 2012 Accepted: 11 July 2012 Published: 28 July 2012 References 1. 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