About the Authors

Yanfang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfang Liu, Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jing Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfang Liu, Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Liqun Zhang

Affiliation Neurology Department, St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Chunxue Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Jianwei Wu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiang Gao

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Anxin Wang

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shouling Wu

zxq@vip.163.com (XZ); drwusl@163.com (SW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kailuan Hospital, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Xingquan Zhao

zxq@vip.163.com (XZ); drwusl@163.com (SW)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW XZ XG. Performed the experiments: YL J. Wang J. Wu. Analyzed the data: YZ AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW YL J. Wang J. Wu. Wrote the paper: YL J. Wang LZ CW.