About the Authors

Hung-Yuan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Yuan Li, Hung-An Lin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-An Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Hung-Yuan Li, Hung-An Lin

Affiliation Lo-Sheng Sanatorium and Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taipei, Taiwan

Feng-Jung Nien

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan

Vin-Cent Wu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Der Jiang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tien-Jyun Chang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsien-Li Kao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Mao-Shin Lin

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical College, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jung-Nan Wei

Affiliation Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan

Cheng-Hsin Lin

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shyang-Rong Shih

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Sheng Hung

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Lee-Ming Chuang

leeming@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical College, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University School of Public Health, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYL VCW YDJ LMC. Performed the experiments: HYL VCW YDJ TJC LMC. Analyzed the data: HYL HAL LMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYL FJN VCW YDJ TJC HLK MSL JNW CHL SRS CSH LMC. Wrote the paper: HYL HAL FJN VCW YDJ TJC HLK MSL JNW CHL SRS CSH LMC.