About the Authors

Xiaoyue Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyue Tan, Changwei Wu

Affiliations Department of Pulmonary Function Test, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Heart-Lung Function Testing Center, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Wenlan Yang

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Function Test, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Jian Guo

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Function Test, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Yan Zhang

Affiliations Department of Pulmonary Function Test, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Respiratory Division, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of traditional Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University, Hangzhou, China

Changwei Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyue Tan, Changwei Wu

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Function Test, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Rikesh Sapkota

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Shailendra Prasad Kushwaha

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Sugang Gong

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Xingguo Sun

xgsun@labiomed.org (XGS); jinmingliu2013@163.com (JML)

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

Jinming Liu

xgsun@labiomed.org (XGS); jinmingliu2013@163.com (JML)

Affiliations Department of Pulmonary Function Test, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JML XGS WLY XYT. Performed the experiments: XYT WLY JG YZ CWW RS SP SGG. Analyzed the data: JML XGS XYT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JML XGS. Wrote the paper: JML XYT JG XGS.