Wang, Shuli
Hu, Hongjie
Lu, Minjie
Sirajuddin, Arlene
Li, Jinghui
An, Jing
Chen, Xiuyu
Yin, Gang
Lan, Tian
Dai, Linlin
Zhang, Yan
Yin, Xiaorong
Song, Lei
Dang, Aimin
Kellman, Peter
Arai, Andrew E.
Zhao, Shihua
Article History
Received: 5 May 2016
Revised: 20 March 2017
Accepted: 3 April 2017
First Online: 24 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Minjie Lu and Shihua Zhao.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: This study was supported in parts by the Research Grant of National Natural Science Foundation of China (81571647, 81370036 and 81620108015), Capital Clinically Characteristic Applied Research Fund (Z151100004015141), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7152124) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (3332013105). This work was also partially supported by the Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: • prospective• cross-sectional study• performed at one institution