TCM VOLUME 27, NUMBER 3
APRIL 2017 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Douglas P. Zipes, MD Indianapolis, IN, USA ASSOCIATE EDITORS Paul D. Thompson, MD Hartford, CN, USA Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Exercise
C. Noel Bairey Mertz, MD Los Angeles, CA, USA Women’s Health
Dan Roden, MD Nashville, TN, USA Clinical Pharmacology
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH Boston, MA, USA Coronary Disease
John S. Rumsfeld, MD Denver, CO, USA Quality/Policy
Robert O. Bonow, MD, MS Chicago, IL, USA Valvular Heart Disease/Myopathies
Jeffrey E. Saffitz, MD Boston, MA, USA Cardiac Pathology
Peter Libby, MD Boston, MA, USA Lipids/Metabolism/Endocrine/Vascular
Hartzell V. Schaff, MD Rochester, MN, USA Cardiovascular Surgery
Calum A. MacRae, MD, PhD Boston, MA, USA Genetics
Janice B. Schwartz, MD San Francisco, CA, USA Geriatric Cardiology
Douglas L. Mann, MD St. Louis, MO, USA Heart Failure and Transplantation
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD Los Angeles, CA, USA Arrhythmias
ASSISTANT EDITORS
MANAGING EDITOR
PAST EDITORS
Joerg Herrmann, MD Rochester, MN, USA
M. Joan Zipes Indianapolis, IN, USA
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD Boston, MA, USA
Benjamin M. Scirica, MD Boston, MA, USA
James E. Udelson, MD Boston, MA, USA Imaging David Van Wagoner, PhD Cleveland, OH, USA Basic Science in Cardiology Ronald G. Victor, MD Los Angeles, CA, USA Hypertension Gary D. Webb, MD Cincinnati, OH, USA Pediatric and Congenital Heart Conditions
Kenneth R. Chien, MD, PhD Boston, MA, USA EDITORIAL BOARD Zoltan P. Arany, MD, PhD Philadelphia, PA, USA Steven M. Bradley, MD, MPH Denver, CO, USA Nenad Bursac, PhD Durham, NC, USA Hua Linda Cai, MD, PhD Los Angeles, CA, USA Cynthia A. Carnes, PharmD, PhD Columbus, OH, USA Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD Davis, CA, USA Amy J. Davidoff, PhD Biddeford, ME, USA Rahul C. Deo, MD, PhD San Francisco, CA, USA Isabelle Deschenes, PhD Cleveland, OH, USA J. Kevin Donahue, MD Worcester, MA, USA Mark W. Feinberg, MD Boston, MA, USA Andrew A. Grace, MBBS, PhD Cambridge, UK Charles H. Hennekens, MD, DrPh Boca Raton, FL, USA David R. Holmes, Jr., MD Rochester, MN, USA Thomas J. Hund, PhD Columbus, OH, USA Jodie Ingles, PhD, MPH Newtown, NSW, AU Sekar Kathiresan, MD Boston, MA, USA
Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, PhD Manitoba, CA Dharam J. Kumbhani, MD Dallas, TX, USA Jane A. Leopold, MD Boston, MA, USA Benjamin D. Levine, MD Dallas, TX, USA Friedrich C. Luft, MD Berlin, GER Thomas M. Maddox, MD Denver, CO, USA Jessica L. Mega, MD, MPH Boston, MA, USA Thomas M. Michel, MD, PhD Boston, MA, USA Hiroshi Morita, MD, PhD Okayama, JP Alex V. Postma, PhD Amsterdam, Netherlands Crystal M. Ripplinger, PhD Davis, CA, USA Anthony Rosenzweig, MD Boston, MA, USA Junichi Sadoshima, MD, PhD Newark, NJ, USA Christopher Semsarian, MBBS, PhD, MPH Newton, NSW, AU Robin Shaw, MD, PhD Los Angeles, CA, USA Mark A. Sussman, PhD San Diego, CA, USA Yan Topilsky, MD Tel Aviv, ISR Matteo Vatta, PhD Indianapolis, IN, USA Sami Viskin, MD Tel Aviv, ISR
TCM Vol. 27, No. 3, April 2017