About the Authors

Xiaoming Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoming Xu, Wei Mao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Wei Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoming Xu, Wei Mao

maoweilw@163.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Qian Chen

Affiliation First College of Clinical Medicine, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Qin Zhuang

Affiliation First College of Clinical Medicine, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Lihui Wang

Affiliation First College of Clinical Medicine, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Jin Dai

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Haibing Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Zhaoquan Huang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM XMX ZQH. Performed the experiments: XMX QC QZ LHW JD HBW. Analyzed the data: XMX QC QZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XMX QC QZ LHW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: WM XMX.