Exploration of the Healthy Donor Effect Among 0.6 Million Blood Donors in China: Longitudinal Study

Shu Su   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Yang Sun   ^{1, 3 *} , PhD ;   Xiaoyun Gu   ⁴ , BSc ;   Wenjie Wu   ⁴ , BSc ;   Xiaodong Su   ⁵ , MSc ;   Ting Ma   ¹ , PhD ;   Aowei Song   ¹ , MSc ;   Xinxin Xie   ¹ , MSc ;   Liqin Wang   ¹ , MSc ;   Qianke Cheng   ⁴ , BSc ;   Lingxia Guo   ⁶ , BSc ;   Lei Zhang   ^{1, 7, 8, 9 *} , PhD ;   Jiangcun Yang   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Transfusion Medicine, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi'an, China

² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chong Qing, China

³ Data Center, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi'an, China

⁴ Department of Information Technology, Shaanxi Health Information Center, Xi'an, China

⁵ Department of Medical Record Management, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi'an, China

⁶ Planning Development and Information Office, Health Commission of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, China

⁷ China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, China

⁸ Artificial Intelligence and Modelling in Epidemiology Program, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia

⁹ Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

*these authors contributed equally