1. Department of Endocrinology, The Second People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, China
2. Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
3. Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
4. Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio; and Heart Center and Gene Therapy Unit, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland
5. Ocular Immunology and Angiogenesis Lab, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
6. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
7. Research Service, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital, Columbia, Missouri
8. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri