Although organ transplantation offers great potential for improving quality of life and reducing health care costs associated with end-stage organ failure, the numbers of organs available for transplant are insufficient (1). Between 1 and 1.5 million Chinese patients are placed on organ transplantation waiting lists every year, yet only less than 10% of them manage to receive an organ (2). Each year, cardiovascular events and traffic accidents result in 2.6 million death (3) and 109,000 (4) b...