About the Authors

Jeng-Hsiu Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeng-Hsiu Hung, Li-Yu Hu

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Li-Yu Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeng-Hsiu Hung, Li-Yu Hu

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Jen Tsai

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

Albert C. Yang

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Center for Dynamical Biomarkers and Translational Medicine, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Min-Wei Huang

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Pan-Ming Chen

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Yuanshan Branch, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan

Shu-Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Dental Laboratory Technology, entral Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

Ti Lu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Cheng-Che Shen

pures1000@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of information magagement, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHH. Analyzed the data: CCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJT ACY. Wrote the paper: LYH. Wrote the second draft of the manuscript: JHH. Supervised the study: MWH PMC SLW TL. Reviewed each version of the manuscript: CCS.