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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.