1. Department of Cardiology, Daping Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China
2. Chongqing Institute of Cardiology, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Hypertension Research, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Chongqing, P.R. China
3. Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Translational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
4. Institute of Vascular Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
5. Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology/Physiology, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, WA, U.S.A.
6. Heart Center of Fujian Province, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, P.R. China