About the Authors

Zhiming Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiming Song, Yong Liu, Baoshun Hao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yong Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiming Song, Yong Liu, Baoshun Hao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Baoshun Hao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiming Song, Yong Liu, Baoshun Hao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Shujie Yu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasonography, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Dinghui Liu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Bin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Lin Wu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Min Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhaojun Xiong

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Chaodong Wu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Jieming Zhu

zhujieming2011@126.com (JZ); xiaoxianq@qq.com (XQ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiaoxian Qian

zhujieming2011@126.com (JZ); xiaoxianq@qq.com (XQ)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Institute Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS YL BH XQ JZ. Performed the experiments: ZS YL BH SY DL HZ ZX. Analyzed the data: SY DL BZ LW MW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZ LW HZ ZX. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: ZS XQ CW JZ.