About the Authors

Jiamei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiamei Liu, Yidan Wang, Mulei Chen

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yidan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiamei Liu, Yidan Wang, Mulei Chen

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Mulei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiamei Liu, Yidan Wang, Mulei Chen

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Wenshu Zhao

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xin Wang

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Hua Wang

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Zhiyong Zhang

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Juan Zhang

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Lin Xu

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jin Chen

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xinchun Yang

linzhangpeking@hotmail.com (XY); cyyangxc@126.com (LZ)

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Lin Zhang

linzhangpeking@hotmail.com (XY); cyyangxc@126.com (LZ)

Affiliation Heart Failure Center, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ XY. Performed the experiments: JL YW MC XW HW ZZ. Analyzed the data: YW JZ LX WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL YW MC JC. Wrote the paper: YW LZ.