About the Authors

Hanyu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanyu Chen, Zhengjie Shen

Affiliations First Clinical Medical College, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Zhengjie Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanyu Chen, Zhengjie Shen

Affiliations First Clinical Medical College, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, Translational Medicine Center of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Key Laboratory of Famous Doctor's Proved Recipe Evaluation and Transformation of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Jiandong Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Haowen Zhang

Affiliations First Clinical Medical College, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Xiaohu Chen

chenxhdoctor@126.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYC ZJS XHC. Performed the experiments: HYC ZJS JDC HWZ. Analyzed the data: ZJS HYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYC ZJS. Wrote the paper: HYC ZJS XHC.