About the Authors

Chi-Jung Huang

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Biochemistry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Shung-Haur Yang

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Taipei-Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Long Lee

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Hsinchu Cathay General Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Che Cheng

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Szu-Yun Tai

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Cheng Chien

chiencmail@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Sijhih Cathay General Hospital, New Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJH SHY CCC. Performed the experiments: CJH SYT. Analyzed the data: CJH CLL YCC CCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJH SHY CCC. Wrote the paper: CJH CCC. Final approval of the version to be published: CCC.