About the Authors

Jiansong Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiansong Yuan, Shi Chen

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

Shi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiansong Yuan, Shi Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Shubin Qiao

yuanjs100@sina.com

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

Fujian Duan

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

Jiafen Zhang

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

Hao Wang

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY SC SQ HW. Performed the experiments: JY FD JZ. Analyzed the data: JY SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY SC. Wrote the paper: JY SC.