About the Authors

Yuanyuan Li

‡ YL is the first contributor on this work. GL is the second contributor on this work.

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Gangsheng Lu

‡ YL is the first contributor on this work. GL is the second contributor on this work.

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Dating Sun

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Houjuan Zuo

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Dao Wen Wang

dwwang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (DWW); jtyan_tjh@163.com (JY)

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jiangtao Yan

dwwang@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn (DWW); jtyan_tjh@163.com (JY)

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JY. Data curation: YL. Formal analysis: YL. Funding acquisition: JY. Investigation: YL JY. Methodology: YL JY. Project administration: YL JY. Resources: JY. Software: GL DS. Supervision: JY DWW. Validation: JY DWW. Visualization: YL JY. Writing – original draft: YL. Writing – review & editing: HZ JY.