About the Authors
- Li-Fu Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Fu Chen, Hsin-Pai Chen
Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan
- Hsin-Pai Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li-Fu Chen, Hsin-Pai Chen
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan
- Yung-Sung Huang
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Affiliation Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan
- Kuang-Yung Huang
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Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan
- Pesus Chou
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Affiliation Community Medicine Research Center and Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ching-Chih Lee
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* E-mail: hematcd@hotmail.com
Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Community Medicine Research Center and Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LFC HPC CCL YSH KYH. Performed the experiments: CCL. Analyzed the data: CCL PC. Wrote the paper: LFC HPC YSH KYH PC CCL.