About the Authors
- Chong-Hong Lim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Chong-Hong Lim, Ching-Heng Lin
Affiliations Rheumatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Pulau Pinang General Hospital, Georgetown, Malaysia, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Ching-Heng Lin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Chong-Hong Lim, Ching-Heng Lin
Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Der-Yuan Chen
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Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Yi-Ming Chen
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Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Wen-Cheng Chao
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Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Tsai-Ling Liao
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Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Hsin-Hua Chen
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* E-mail: shc5555@hotmail.com
Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: DYC HHC TLL. Data curation: HHC WCC. Formal analysis: HHC YMC. Funding acquisition: HHC. Investigation: HHC YMC. Methodology: C.H. Lim HHC TLL. Project administration: HHC. Resources: C.H. Lin. Software: C.H. Lin HHC. Supervision: DYC HHC. Validation: HHC C.H. Lim YMC WCC. Visualization: HHC. Writing – original draft: C.H. Lim HHC. Writing – review & editing: HHC YMC.