About the Authors

Guangwen Long

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangwen Long, Feng Wang

Feng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangwen Long, Feng Wang

Quanlu Duan
Shenglan Yang
Fuqiong Chen
Wei Gong
Xu Yang
Yan Wang
Chen Chen

chenchen@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and the Institute of Hypertension, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Dao Wen Wang

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW CC. Performed the experiments: GL FW. Analyzed the data: GL CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QD SY FC WG XY YW. Wrote the paper: GL YW CC.