Exp Ther Med 17: 3041-3046, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/etm.2019.7320
Subsequently to the publication of this article, the authors have realized that the first pair of authors listed on the paper, Xia Wu and Lili Sun, were not credited as joint first authors who made equal contributions to this study (asterisks should have been included alongside their names with the appropriate footnote to reflect this).
Therefore, the correct author affiliations for this article should have been presented as follows:
XIA WU1*, LILI SUN1* and ZILIANG WANG2
1Department of Geriatrics, Daqing Oilfield General Hospital; 2Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Daqing People's Hospital, Daqing, Heilongjiang 163316, P.R. China
*Contributed equally
The authors regret their oversight in this regard, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.