1. Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas;
2. Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, Peoples Republic of China;
3. Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China;
4. Department of Clinical Medicine, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, China;
5. The First Affiliated Hospital to Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China; and
6. Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California