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Author names: Xue-song Wen1*, Lei
Gao1, Dan Jiang1,2, Xiao-cheng
Cheng1, Bin He1, Yue
Chen1, Peng Lei1, Wei-xiao
Tan1, Shu Qin1, Guo-qiang
Cai1, Dong-ying Zhang1
Affiliations: 1Department of Cardiovascular
Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University,
Chongqing 400016, China
2Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The First
Branch of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University,
Chongqing 400016, China
*: Xue-song Wen is first author
Author contributions:W.X. participated in study design, analyzing data analysis and
manuscript writing. G.L., C.X., J.D., H.B., C.Y., L.P., and T.X. were
involved in data collection. Q.S., C.G. and Z.D. were responsible for
the study concept, design and final approval of manuscript. All authors
have read and approved the final manuscript. W.X. is the first author.
correspondence:zhangdongying@cqmu.edu.cn.
Funding: None.
Conflict of Interest: None.
Table 1. Baseline patient characteristics of different degrees
of CD4+ T cell.