About the Authors

Shu-Yu Liu

SYL and CMW are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Grace Yu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, National University Health System of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Li-Ang Lee

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan

Tien-Chen Liu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yung-Ting Tsou

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan

Te-Jen Lai

tejenlai@hotmail.com (TJL); bobwu506@hotmail.com (CMW)

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Che-Ming Wu

tejenlai@hotmail.com (TJL); bobwu506@hotmail.com (CMW)

SYL and CMW are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SYL GY TJL CMW. Performed the experiments: GY. Analyzed the data: SYL GY LAL YTT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAL TCL CMW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SYL YTT. Critically reviewed and revised the manuscript: TCL TJL CMW.