High anti-human cytomegalovirus antibody levels are associated with the progression of essential hypertension and target organ damage in Han Chinese population

• Zhen Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Li, Yan Tang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathophysiology/Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China, Department of Emergency and critical care medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• Yan Tang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Li, Yan Tang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• Na Tang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology/Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• Qian Feng,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology/Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• Hua Zhong,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology/Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• Yong-min Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology/Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• La-mei Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Centre of Medical Functional Experiments, Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

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• Fang He

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fangf2002shz@126.com

  Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology/Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Xinjiang Endemic and Ethnic Diseases, Medical College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3308-2319

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