About the Authors

Sen He

Contributed equally to this work with: Sen He, Yi Zheng, Yan Shu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Yi Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Sen He, Yi Zheng, Yan Shu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Yan Shu

Contributed equally to this work with: Sen He, Yi Zheng, Yan Shu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China

Jiyun He

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Yong Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Xiaoping Chen

happensky@163.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH XPC YZ. Performed the experiments: SH JYH. Analyzed the data: SH XPC YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ YW YS. Wrote the manuscript: SH YS.