Journal of Geriatric Cardiology Open Access Editor-in-Chief: Yun-Dai CHEN
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Yun-Dai CHEN
Consultant Editors

Charles C Canver

Da-Yi HU, China

Jun-Bo GE, China

Thach Nguyen, USA

Li FAN, China

Ya-Ling HAN, China

Jurgen Claassen, Netherlands

Teoman Kilic, Turkey

HO Kwok-Ming, Australia

Li-Sheng LIU, China

Francis FY Lam, Hong Kong, China

Guang-Ping LI, China

Paul Schoenhagen, USA

Peter Matt, Switzerland

Vera Novak, USA

Nan-Shan ZHONG, China

Graziano Riccioni, Italy

Song WAN, Hong Kong, China

Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai, Italy

Daniel E Forman

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Zhong-Hua SUN, Australia

Editorial Board Members

Aaqib Malik, USA

Abraham Samuel Babu, India

Adrià Arboix, Spain

Adrian Baranchuk, Canada

Ahmed I El-Sakka, Egypt

Ai-Jun SUN, China

Ai-Qun MA, China

Akira Sekikawa, USA

Albert Ariza Solé, Spain

Albert Hofman, Netherlands

Alexandros Briasoulis, USA

Ali Ahmed, USA

Allan S Jaffe, USA

András Vereckei, Hungary

Andrea Natale, USA

Andrea Rubboli, Italy

Anna Sonia Petronio, Italy

Anthony J Donato, USA

António Vaz Carneiro, Portugal

Arduino Aleksander Mangoni, Australia

Arintaya Phrommintikul, Thailand

Athanase D Protogerou, Greece

Barak Zafrir, Israel

Barry H Greenberg, USA

Bin LIU, China

Bin LV, China

Bo XU, China

Bo YU, China

Bon-Kwon Koo, Korea

Brian Olshansky, USA

Cang-Song XIAO, China

Carl J Lavie, USA

Carl J Pepine, USA

Carlo Ventura, Italy

Carlos M Ferrario, USA

Carmine Gazzaruso, Italy

Catherine M Verfaillie, Belgium

Chang-Sheng MA, China

Chao-Hung WANG, Taiwan, China

Charalambos Antoniades, UK

Charanjit S Rihal, USA

Chavdar Pavlov, Russia

Colin M Barker, USA

Dalane W Kitzman, USA

Damiano Magri, Italy

Damiano Rizzoni, Italy

Dan Atar, Norway

Davide Grassi, Italy

Davide Pacini, Italy

Dimitrios Karakitsos, Greece

Dimitris Tousoulis, Greece

Ding-Cheng XIANG, China

Dobromir Dobrev, Germany

Dong ZHAO, China

Ebru Ozpelit, Turkey

Edward G Lakatta, USA

Eileen Crimmins, USA

Elmir Omerovic, Sweden

Eugene S Chung, USA

Evgeny N. Mikhaylov, Russia

Fathallah Neila, Tunisia

Fausto Biancari, Finland

Fausto J Pinto, Portugal

Federico Piscione, Italy

Francesco Busardo, Italy

Francesco Pollari, Germany

Francis E Marchlinski, USA

Francis Lam, HK, China

Frans H Rutten, Netherlands

Gaurav Choudhary, USA

Gen-Shan MA, China

Gerd Heusch, Germany

Giacomo Mugnai, Italy

Gianluca Rigatelli, Italy

Gil F Salles, Brazil

Giorgio Iervasi, Italy

Giuseppina Basta, Italy

Guang-Ping LI, China

Guo-Chang Fan, USA

Guo-Ping Shi, USA

Guo-Sheng FU, China

Hai-Bo ZHANG, China

Hai-Yun WU, China

Hao XUE, China

Helmut Schroder, Spain

Hemal H Patel, USA

Henrik T Sørensen, Denmark

Henry Krum, Australia

Hideki Ota, Japan

Hiroshi Okamoto, Japan

Hsueh-Wen Chang, Taiwan, China

Huige Li, Germany

Ignatios Ikonomidis, Greece

Ilker Tasci, Turkey

Imad Abi Nasr, France

Islam Elgendy, USA

Ivor J Benjamin, USA

Jacob George, USA

Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Denmark

Janja Pretnar-Oblak, Slovenia

Jawahar L Mehta, USA

Jaw-Wen Chen, Taiwan, China

Jens P Goetze, Denmark

Jerome L Fleg, USA

Jesus G Vallejo, USA

Jian LIU, Canada

Jian LIU, China

Jian ZHANG, China

Jian-Fang LUO, China

Jiang-Ping SONG, China

Jian-Guo HE, China

Jian-Jun LI, China

Jian-Ping CAI, China

Jian-Ping LI, China

Jie-Fu YANG, China

Jing LI, China

Jing-Hua LIU, China

Ji-Yan CHEN, China

Joel Andrew Strom, USA

Jonathan P Piccini, USA

Jong-Seon Park, Korea

Jose C Nicolau, Brazil

José PS Henriques, Netherlands

Joseph C Wu, USA

Joseph S Alpert, USA

Jun CAI, China

Jun GUO, China

Jun JIANG, China

Jun PU, China

Jun TAO, China

Junya Shite, Japan

Ju-Ying QIAN, China

Kai HUANG, China

Ke-Fei DOU, China

Kuljit Singh, Australia

Lars Edvinsson, Sweden

Lei XU, China

Leos Pleva, Czech Republic

Li WANG, China

Liang-Long CHEN, China

Linda W. Van Laake, Netherlands

Ling TAO, China

Lu CAI, USA

Luigi Iuliano, Italy

Luis M Blanco-Colio, Spain

Mao CHEN, China

Marco Proietti, Italy

Marianna Mazza, Italy

Mario Barbagallo, Italy

Mark P Little, USA

Mark Slevin, UK

Masamichi Takano, Japan

Massimo Chello, Italy

Matthew Budoff, USA

Mehmet Kanbay, Turkey

Mei Zhang, China

Michael A Chen, USA

Michael Goldfarb, Canada

Michel E Safar, France

Ming-Long CHEN, China

Mitchell H Rosner, USA

Mitja LAINSCAK, Slovenia

Mohammed S Razzaque, USA

Mustafa Cetin, Turkey

Nassir F Marrouche, USA

Nathan D Wong, USA

Nicholas G Kounis, Greece

Nikolaos G Frangogiannis, USA

Noor-Ahmed Jatoi, Ireland

Olga Pechanova, Slovak

Olivier Lesur, Canada

Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Greece

Perrault Louis, Canada

Peter H Backx, Canada

Pin-Lan Li, USA

Prakash Deedwania, USA

Qi YANG, China

Qing YANG, China

Rakesh C Kukreja, USA

Raouf A Khalil, USA

Rita Rezzani, Italy

Robert J Ostfeld, USA

Roberto Manfredini, Italy

Rolf Bodmer, USA

Ru-Tai HUI, China

Saman Nazarian, USA

Sawa Kostin, Germany

Seung-Jung Park, Korea

Shao-Ping NIE, China

Sheng-Li JIANG, China

Shi-Hua ZHAO, China

Shou-Ling WU, China

Shu ZHANG, China

Shun-Ying HU, China

Simon W Rabkin, Canada

Stephan Achenbach, Germany

Steven Droogmans, Belgium

Subrata Chakrabarti, Canada

Suzanne Oparil, USA

Takafumi Hamaoka, Japan

Takuya Watanabe, Japan

Thanos Athanasiou, UK

Thorsten Reffelmann, Germany

Tzung-Dau Wang, Taiwan, China

Valery Feigin, New Zealand

Vallerie McLaughlin, USA

Van der Harst, The Netherlands

Vladimír Dzavík, Canada

Wayne L Miller, USA

Wei HUA, China

Wei-Hsian Yin, Taiwan, China

Wei-Xian YANG, China

William C Roberts, USA

Winfried März, Germany

Witold Ruzyllo, Poland

Xi SU, China

Xiang CHENG, China

Xiang-Bin PAN, China

Xian-Tao SONG, China

Xiao-Ming WANG, China

Xiao-Tong HOU, China

Xin WANG, China

Xue-Bo LIU, China

Yang-Feng WU, China

Yao HE, China

Yehonatan Sharabi, Israel

Yi-Gang LI, China

Yi-Hong SUN, China

Ying-Xian SUN, China

Yong-Fu XIAO, USA

Yong-Jian WU, China

Yu-Gang DONG, China

Yuichi Hattori, Japan

Yun-Long XIA, China

Yun-Zeng ZOU, China

Yu-Tao GUO, China

Ze-Ning JIN, China

Zhen-Yue CHEN, China

Zhi-Cheng JING, China

Zhi-Ren ZHANG, China

Zu-Yi YUAN, China

Youth Editorial Board Members

Bin ZHANG, China

Dong-Hai LIU, China

Gang HUANG, China

Guang-Wei ZHONG, China

Jia-Liu WEI, China

Jiao FAN, China

Jia-You TANG, China

Jing ZHAO, China

Jun-Nan TANG, China

Ju-Yi LI, China

Lei GAO, China

Lei SONG, China

Lin KANG, China

Li-Na MA, China

Miao LIU, China

Mu QIN, China

Nan-Hu QUAN, China

Pan LI, China

Peng-Fei ZHANG, China

Qi JIN, China

Qian LI, China

Qiang SU, China

Ran ZHANG, China

Tao CHEN, China

Ting CHEN, China

Tong LIU, China

Wei GAO, China

Xiang-Yuan PU, China

Xiao HUANG, China

Xiao WANG, China

Xiao-Fei LI, China

Xiao-Lin NIU, China

Xiao-Peng ZHU, China

Xi-Hai ZHAO, China

Xin SUN, China

Xin-Hua ZHANG, China

Xi-Zhen XU, China

Yan WANG, China

Yang WANG, China

Yang YE, China

Yan-Guang LI, China

Yong PENG, China

Yong-Tai GONG, China

Yuan-Hui LIU, China

Yue LIU, China

Yue YUAN, China

Zhi-Jian WANG, China