About the Authors

Chi-Hung Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Pi-Shan Sung

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Yan-Rong Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Wen-Kuan Huang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tay-Wey Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Biostatistical Consultation Center, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Chin-Chang Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tsong-Hai Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tien-Hsing Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

skyheart0826@gmail.com (THC); yichiawei@gmail.com (YCW)

‡ These authors are joint corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Keelung, Taiwan

Yi-Chia Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

skyheart0826@gmail.com (THC); yichiawei@gmail.com (YCW)

‡ These authors are joint corresponding authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.