About the Authors

Ying-Hsien Chen

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Wen Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yen-Wen Wu, Yi-Lwun Ho

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Wei-Shiung Yang

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shoei-Shen Wang

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Ming Lee

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Cardiovascular Center, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Dou-Liu City, Taiwan

Nai-Kuan Chou

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ron-Bin Hsu

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Hung Lin

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Mao-Shin Lin

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Lwun Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Yen-Wen Wu, Yi-Lwun Ho

ylho@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Fong Chen

Affiliations National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHC YWW MFC WSY YLH. Performed the experiments: YHC YWW MFC WSY SSW CML NKC RBH YHL MSL YLH. Analyzed the data: YHC YWW YLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHC YWW YLH. Wrote the paper: YHC YWW YLH.