About the Authors

Mengyan Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengyan Wei, Pu Wang, Xiufang Zhu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Pu Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengyan Wei, Pu Wang, Xiufang Zhu

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Xiufang Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mengyan Wei, Pu Wang, Xiufang Zhu

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Masaki Morishima

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University, Nara, Japan

Yangong Liu

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Mingqi Zheng

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China

Gang Liu

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China

Hiroki Osanai

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Kenshi Yoshimura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Shinichiro Kume

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Tatsuki Kurokawa

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Katsushige Ono

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

ono@oita-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology, Oita University School of Medicine, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.