About the Authors

Ting Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Lu, Zongwei Lin

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shandong Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China

Zongwei Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Lu, Zongwei Lin

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Health; The State and Shandong Province Joint Key Laboratory of Translational Cardiovascular Medicine, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China

Jianwei Ren

Affiliation Health Division of Guard Bureau, General Staff Department of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China

Peng Yao

Affiliation Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, Jinan Firefighting Hospital, Jinan, China

Xiaowei Wang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Health; The State and Shandong Province Joint Key Laboratory of Translational Cardiovascular Medicine, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China

Zhe Wang

wz@medmail.com.cn (ZW); wz.zhangqy@sdu.edu.cn (QYZ)

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shandong Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China

Qunye Zhang

wz@medmail.com.cn (ZW); wz.zhangqy@sdu.edu.cn (QYZ)

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Health; The State and Shandong Province Joint Key Laboratory of Translational Cardiovascular Medicine, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QYZ ZW. Performed the experiments: TL ZWL. Analyzed the data: TL XWW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWR PY. Wrote the paper: TL QYZ.