About the Authors

Yuzhen Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Dan Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Minglong Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bing Yang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Fengxiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Kejiang Cao

kjcao@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ KC. Performed the experiments: YZ DW MC BY FZ. Analyzed the data: YZ DW MC BY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC BY FZ KC. Wrote the paper: YZ KC.