About the Authors

Pengsheng Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Sisi Pang

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Naiquan Yang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Huai’an Second People’s Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical College, Huai’an, China

Haoyu Meng

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jia Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Human Functional Genomics of Jiangsu Province, Clinical Diabetes Centre of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ningtian Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Min Zhang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhihui Xu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wei Gao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bo Chen

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhengxian Tao

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Liansheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhijian Yang

zhijianyangnj@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY. Performed the experiments: PC SP NY JL HM NZ MZ ZX. Analyzed the data: BC ZT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZY. Wrote the paper: PC SP NY. Helped to edit the manuscript: SP HM JL MZ WG LW.