About the Authors

Jia Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia Dai, Di-Fei Shen, Zhou-Yan Bian

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Di-Fei Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia Dai, Di-Fei Shen, Zhou-Yan Bian

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zhou-Yan Bian

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia Dai, Di-Fei Shen, Zhou-Yan Bian

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Heng Zhou

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Hua-Wen Gan

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Jing Zong

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Wei Deng

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Yuan Yuan

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

FangFang Li

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Qing-Qing Wu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Lu Gao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Rui Zhang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zhen-Guo Ma

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Hong-Liang Li

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Qi-Zhu Tang

qztang@whu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QT JD DS ZB HL. Performed the experiments: JD DS ZB HZ HG JZ RZ. Analyzed the data: JD WD YY FL QW LG ZM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QT HL. Wrote the paper: JD DS ZB HL QT.