About the Authors

Chen Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Zhang, Ali Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Clinical College, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China

Ali Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Zhang, Ali Ma

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation First Clinical College, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China

Juan Ma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Heart Centre and Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China

Peng Wu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation First Clinical College, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China

Huiyan Ma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics and Special Needs Medicine, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China

Xueping Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

maxueping4033@126.com (XM); yanning169@yahoo.com (NY)

Affiliations Heart Centre and Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China, Institute of Medical Sciences, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China

Ning Yan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

maxueping4033@126.com (XM); yanning169@yahoo.com (NY)

Affiliations Heart Centre and Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China, Institute of Medical Sciences, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.