About the Authors

Xinlin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinlin Zhang, Qingqing Zhu, Li Zhu, He Jiang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Qingqing Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinlin Zhang, Qingqing Zhu, Li Zhu, He Jiang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Li Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinlin Zhang, Qingqing Zhu, Li Zhu, He Jiang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

He Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinlin Zhang, Qingqing Zhu, Li Zhu, He Jiang

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Jun Xie

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Wei Huang

xubiao@medmail.com.cn (BX); huangweisd@126.com (WH)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Biao Xu

xubiao@medmail.com.cn (BX); huangweisd@126.com (WH)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ QZ WH BX. Performed the experiments: XZ QZ LZ HJ. Analyzed the data: XZ QZ LZ HJ JX WH BX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ QZ LZ HJ JX. Wrote the paper: XZ QZ LZ HJ JX WH BX.