About the Authors

Ming-duo Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-duo Zhang, Wei Gu

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Wei Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-duo Zhang, Wei Gu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anhui, China

Shi-bin Qiao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Rizhao People’s Hospital, Shandong, China

En-jun Zhu

Affiliations Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Quan-ming Zhao

cardio_anzhen@hotmail.com (SL); cardio_zqm@hotmail.com (QZ)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Shu-zheng Lv

cardio_anzhen@hotmail.com (SL); cardio_zqm@hotmail.com (QZ)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL QZ. Performed the experiments: MZ WG. Analyzed the data: SQ EZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL QZ. Wrote the paper: MZ WG.