About the Authors

Yukai Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yukai Liu, Ken Chen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing, P. R. China

Ken Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yukai Liu, Ken Chen

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing, P. R. China

Xun Kou

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing, P. R. China

Yu Han

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing, P. R. China

Lin Zhou

cyzeng1@hotmail.com (CZ); zhoulin@mail.tmmu.com.cn (LZ)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing, P. R. China

Chunyu Zeng

cyzeng1@hotmail.com (CZ); zhoulin@mail.tmmu.com.cn (LZ)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL LZ CZ KC. Analyzed the data: YL KC XK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XK YH LZ. Wrote the paper: YL KC CZ. Performed the meta analysis: YL KC.