About the Authors

Xiang Xie

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Yi-Tong Ma

myt-xj@163.com

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Yi-Ning Yang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Mei Li

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Zhen-Yan Fu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Ying-Ying Zheng

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Xiang Ma

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Bang-Dang Chen

Affiliation Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Fen Liu

Affiliation Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Ying Huang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Zi-Xiang Yu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

You Chen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, People's Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XX YTM. Performed the experiments: XX YNY XML BDC YYZ. Analyzed the data: FL YH XM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZYF BDC ZXY YC. Wrote the paper: XX YTM.