About the Authors

Anxin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Anxin Wang, Shuohua Chen

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Shuohua Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Anxin Wang, Shuohua Chen

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

Chunxue Wang

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

Yuntao Wu

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

Aijun Xing

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

Yanxia Luo

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Zhe Huang

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

Xiaoxue Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tangshan people’s Hospital, Tangshan, China

Xiuhua Guo

drwusl@163.com (SW); zxq@vip.163.com (XZ); guoxiuh@ccmu.edu.cn (XG)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xingquan Zhao

drwusl@163.com (SW); zxq@vip.163.com (XZ); guoxiuh@ccmu.edu.cn (XG)

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

Shouling Wu

drwusl@163.com (SW); zxq@vip.163.com (XZ); guoxiuh@ccmu.edu.cn (XG)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW XG XZ SW. Performed the experiments: AW SC CW YZ. Analyzed the data: AW YZ YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW AX ZH XL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AW SC.