About the Authors

Mingyong Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingyong Liu, Yuesong Pan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Stroke, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China, Center of Stroke, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Cerebrovascular Disease, Beijing, China, Department of Neurology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yuesong Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingyong Liu, Yuesong Pan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Lichun Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

yongjunwang1962@gmail.com (YW); 13701279076@163.com (LZ)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yongjun Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yongjunwang1962@gmail.com (YW); 13701279076@163.com (LZ)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Center of Stroke, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China, Center of Stroke, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Cerebrovascular Disease, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.