About the Authors

Zheng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zheng Liu, Cheng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Cheng Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zheng Liu, Cheng Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yuzhou Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Sihua Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ping Ye

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xiaoping Miao

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jiahong Xia

jiahong.xia@mail.hust.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL CZ JX. Performed the experiments: ZL YL CZ. Analyzed the data: ZL XM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CZ SW PY YL. Wrote the paper: ZL CZ JX.