About the Authors

Jie Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Chen, Hongquan Peng, Long Xiao

Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Hongquan Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Chen, Hongquan Peng, Long Xiao

Affiliation Renal Division, Kiang Wu Hospital, Macau SAR, China

Long Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Chen, Hongquan Peng, Long Xiao

Affiliation Department of blood purification of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Kun Zhang

Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Department of Cardiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Zhimin Yuan

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Jianping Chen

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Zhiyu Wang

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Jingfeng Wang

Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Department of Cardiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Hui Huang

huanghui765@hotmail.com

Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Department of Cardiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH. Performed the experiments: HQP LX KZ. Analyzed the data: ZMY JPC ZYW JFW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZMY. Wrote the manuscript: JC.