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Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Dyslipidemia and Cardiovascular Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, No 167 BeiLiShi Road, XiCheng District, Beijing 100037, China; Department of Cardiology, The Fifth Hospital of Wuhan & Affiliated Guangci Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430050, China.
• ² Center for Dyslipidemia and Cardiovascular Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, No 167 BeiLiShi Road, XiCheng District, Beijing 100037, China.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, The Fifth Hospital of Wuhan & Affiliated Guangci Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430050, China.
• ⁴ Center for Dyslipidemia and Cardiovascular Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fu Wai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, No 167 BeiLiShi Road, XiCheng District, Beijing 100037, China. Electronic address: [email protected].