About the Authors

Zhiyong Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiyong Du, Anna Shen, Yuli Huang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China

Anna Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiyong Du, Anna Shen, Yuli Huang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Cardiology, The Third Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Yuli Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiyong Du, Anna Shen, Yuli Huang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Liang Su

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China

Wenyan Lai

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China

Peng Wang

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China

Zhibing Xie

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China

Zhiquan Xie

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Guangzhou General Hospital of PLA, Guangzhou, China

Qingchun Zeng

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China

Hao Ren

renhao67@aliyun.com (HR); dinglixu@smu.edu.cn (DX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China, Department of Rheumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Dingli Xu

renhao67@aliyun.com (HR); dinglixu@smu.edu.cn (DX)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory For Organ Failure Research, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX ZD. Performed the experiments: AS LS ZD PW Zhibing Xie YH Zhiquan Xie. Analyzed the data: ZD YH LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL PW Zhibing Xie HR. Wrote the paper: YH ZD AS QZ. Obtained funding: DX. Study supervision: DX HR.