About the Authors
- Qingzhong Xiao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qingzhong Xiao, Stefan Kiechl
Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Stefan Kiechl
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qingzhong Xiao, Stefan Kiechl
Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Seema Patel
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Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Friedrich Oberhollenzer
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
- Siegfried Weger
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Agnes Mayr
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy
- Bernhard Metzler
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Markus Reindl
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Yanhua Hu
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Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Johann Willeit
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Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Qingbo Xu
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: qingbo.xu@kcl.ac.uk
Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: QX JW QX. Performed the experiments: QX SP FO SW AM YH. Analyzed the data: SK QX JW QX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK QX BM MR QX. Wrote the paper: SK QX YH JW QX. Other: Wrote the first draft of the paper: QX.