Correction to: BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2019) 19:301.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-019-1232-y

After the publication of the original article [1], we were notified that one of the corresponding author’s name and her related institution were wrongly spelled.

Yunchen Xu should be replaced with author’s Given name Chenyun, and Family name Xu.

Her institution “Hainan People’s Hospital-Longhua, #8 Longhua Rd, Longhua District Hainan, Haikou 570102, China” should be instead indicated as “Hainan General Hospital-Longhua, #8 Longhua Rd, Longhua District Hainan, Haikou 570102, China”.