About the Authors

Dong-Yi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Yi Chen, Chao-Yung Wang

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chao-Yung Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Yi Chen, Chao-Yung Wang

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ming-Shien Wen

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tsong-Hai Lee

Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yen Chu

Affiliation Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ming-Jer Hsieh

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Shang-Hung Chang

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Cheng-Hung Lee

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Jian-Liang Wang

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chun-Chi Chen

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Laing-Suei Lu

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Ming-Ta Lee

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

San-Jou Yeh

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Fun-Chiung Lin

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

I-Chang Hsieh

ocean.laboratory@me.com

Affiliation Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DYC CYW MSW ICH SJY FCL. Performed the experiments: DYC CYW LSL. Analyzed the data: DYC CYW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: THL YC MJH SHC CHL JLW CCC MTL. Wrote the paper: DYC CYW ICH.