Correction: A functional variant of SMAD4 enhances macrophage recruitment and inflammatory response via TGF-β signal activation in Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection

Original article: Aging (Albany NY) 2018; 10: 3683-3701

This article has been corrected: The authors made mistake in Supplementary Table 1, the D-dimer, CRP data are same in screening cohort and validation cohort. The correct Supplementary Table 1 is provided below. The authors declare that this correction does not change the results or conclusions of this paper. The authors sincerely apologize for this error.

Supplementary Table 1. Demographics and clinical features of the TAAD patients involved in this study.

Item	Screening cohort n=202	Validation cohort n=227	P
Age	54.1±14.2	55.2±12.7	0.633
Men(%)	75.2	72.1	0.727
Hypertension(%)	40.1	37.3	0.423
Diabetes(%)	14.4	12.6	0.652
Smoking(%)	52.0	46.5	0.543
Body mass index (kg/m2) Thoracic aortic diameter(mm)	23.9±4.0 53.2±8.0	24.5±4.2 52.2±9.7	0.768 0.439
D-dimer(μg/ml)	7.66±2.81	7.82±3.98	0.185
CRP(μg/ml)	13.22±6.33	12.69±5.17	0.299
HDL-c	1.15±0.29	1.26±0.29	0.071
LDL-c	2.45±0.80	2.39±0.87	0.299