Correction Volume 11, Issue 2 pp 836
Correction: A functional variant of SMAD4 enhances macrophage recruitment and inflammatory response via TGF-β signal activation in Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection
- 1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital and Institute for Cardiovascular Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
Received: January 20, 2019 Accepted: January 25, 2019 Published: January 31, 2019
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101812How to Cite
Correction for:
Aging (Albany NY). 2018;
10:3683-3701
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https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101662
PMID: 30530919
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 |