About the Authors

Zhihong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihong Zhang, Jianyong Ma

Affiliations Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Department of Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China, Statistic Teaching Group, Fuzhou Medical College of Nanchang University, Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China

Jianyong Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihong Zhang, Jianyong Ma

Affiliation Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Department of Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China

Xuehua Tao

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Sixth Hospital of Nanchang City, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China

Yueying Zhou

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Guizhou Hospital of Fushan City, Fushan, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Xin Liu

Affiliation Statistic Teaching Group, Fuzhou Medical College of Nanchang University, Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China

Hai Su

suyihappy@sohu.com

Affiliation Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Department of Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS. Performed the experiments: ZHZ. Analyzed the data: JYM XHT YYZ ZHZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS XL.