About the Authors

Yaqin Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R China

Mingjie Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R China

Zhihong Wu

wuzh915@hotmail.com (ZW); zhaosp@medmail.com.cn (SZ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R China

Shuiping Zhao

wuzh915@hotmail.com (ZW); zhaosp@medmail.com.cn (SZ)

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YQC ZHW. Performed the experiments: YQC MJC. Analyzed the data: YQC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPZ. Wrote the manuscript: YQC. Reviewed the article: SPZ. Part of the research and revised the article: ZHW.