About the Authors

Dengfeng Gao

gaomedic@163.com

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes Related to Diseases (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Ministry of Education, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Ning Ning

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Congxia Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Yuhuan Wang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine,Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Qing Li

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Zhe Meng

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Yang Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Qiang Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DFG YHW CXW. Performed the experiments: DFG NN. Analyzed the data: YL ZM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DFG QL QL. Wrote the paper: DFG NN.