Cai, Anping https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3953-5881
Zhang, Junguo
Clarkson, Stephen A.
Lip, Gregory Y. H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7566-1626
Schutte, Aletta E. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9217-4937
Zhou, Yingling
Liu, Zhaoyan
Parati, Gianfranco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9402-7439
Article History
Received: 29 March 2025
Revised: 3 January 2026
Accepted: 23 January 2026
First Online: 11 March 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The project has approval from the North West Multi-center Research Ethics Committee (MREC) (REC reference 21:/NW/0157), and informed written consent was obtained from each participant. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.