About the Authors

Lei Song

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

Yue-Jin Yang

yangyjfw@yahoo.com.cn

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

Qiu-Ting Dong

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

Hai-Yan Qian

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

Run-Lin Gao

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

Shu-Bin Qiao

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

Rui Shen

Affiliation Nuclear Medicine Department, Fuwai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Zuo-Xiang He

Affiliation Nuclear Medicine Department, Fuwai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Min-Jie Lu

Affiliation Radiology Department, Fuwai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Shi-Hua Zhao

Affiliation Radiology Department, Fuwai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yong-Jian Geng

Affiliation Center for Cardiovascular Biology and Atherosclerosis Research, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bernard J. Gersh

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS YY. Performed the experiments: LS QD HQ. Analyzed the data: LS RS ZH ML SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS QD RG SQ. Wrote the paper: LS YY HQ YG BJG.