About the Authors

Wenwei Qi

Affiliations Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Nixiao Zhang

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Panagiotis Korantzopoulos

Affiliation First Department of Cardiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece

Konstantinos P. Letsas

Affiliation Second Department of Cardiology, Laboratory of Cardiac Electrophysiology, “Evangelismos” General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

Min Cheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Fusheng Di

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Third Central Hospital of Tianjin, Tianjin, China

Gary Tse

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, P.R. China, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, P.R. China

Tong Liu

liutongdoc@126.com (TL); tjcardiol@126.com (GL)

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Guangping Li

liutongdoc@126.com (TL); tjcardiol@126.com (GL)

Affiliation Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TL GL. Data curation: WQ NZ. Formal analysis: WQ. Funding acquisition: TL GT. Investigation: WQ NZ. Methodology: WQ NZ MC. Project administration: WQ TL. Resources: TL WQ. Software: WQ. Supervision: TL GL. Validation: PK KPL TL WQ. Visualization: WQ. Writing – original draft: WQ. Writing – review & editing: WQ NZ PK KPL MC FD GT TL GL.