About the Authors

Jiumei Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiumei Cao, Liang Geng

Affiliations Department of Geratology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Liang Geng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiumei Cao, Liang Geng

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Qihong Wu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Wei Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Qiujing Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lin Lu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Weifeng Shen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ying Chen

cybest@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital North, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC YC. Performed the experiments: JC LG QW WW YC. Analyzed the data: JC LG LL WS YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QC LL. Wrote the paper: JC LG YC.