About the Authors

Ping Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Yan, Bin Sun

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Bin Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Yan, Bin Sun

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Haiming Shi

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Wen Zhu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Qing Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Yuwen Jiang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Hui Zhu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Guoqian Huang

guoqian_huang@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PY GQH. Performed the experiments: PY BS. Analyzed the data: PY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HMS WZ QZ YWJ HZ. Wrote the paper: PY GQH.