About the Authors

Liugang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liugang Xu, Yajun Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Yajun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liugang Xu, Yajun Wang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Hongyun Ji

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Wei Du

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Chunhui You

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Jin Chen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Jianyu Jiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Yisi Shan

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Qian Pan

Roles Writing – review & editing

caoruihong1213@163.com (RC); panqian1987616@163.com (QP)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Ruihong Cao

Roles Writing – review & editing

caoruihong1213@163.com (RC); panqian1987616@163.com (QP)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Zhangjiagang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.