About the Authors

Yong An

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong An, Yong-Tao Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Yong-Tao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong An, Yong-Tao Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Yi-Tong Ma

myt_xj@sina.com (YTM); muhuyati@163.com (MW)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Muhuyati Wulasihan

myt_xj@sina.com (YTM); muhuyati@163.com (MW)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Ying Huang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Dilare Adi

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Yi-Ning Yang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Xiang Ma

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Xiao-Mei Li

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Xiang Xie

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Ding Huang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Fen Liu

Affiliation Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Bang-Dang Chen

Affiliation Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease Research, Urumqi, 830054 P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YA YTW YTM MW. Performed the experiments: YA YTW DA BDC. Analyzed the data: FL YH XML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YNY XM XX DH. Wrote the paper: YA YTW YTM MW.