Correction to: Hypertension Research (2009) 32, 1097–1103; doi:10.1038/hr.2009.159

The authors of the above article noted an error in publication of this paper (AOP and in the December 2009 issue) in the list of authors and the corresponding authors. The correct list of authors and corresponding authors is shown below.

Zhensui Lu1,2, Zhenhong Lu3, Yanling Zhu4, Zhaoyang Yan5, Xiaoquan Liu4, Weiqi Yan1,2 and Guo-Ping Shi6

Correspondence: Dr G-P Shi, Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, NRB-7, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

E-mail: gshi@rics.bwh.harvard.edu or Dr W Yan, Clinical Research Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China.

E-mail: wyan@zju.edu.cn