About the Authors

Jenq-Wen Huang

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

Yu-Chung Lien

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Hon-Yen Wu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chung-Jen Yen

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

Chun-Chun Pan

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsai-Wei Hung

Affiliation Department of Nursing, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Ting Su

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

Chih-Kang Chiang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Integrated Diagnostics and Therapeutics, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hui-Teng Cheng

kyhung@ntu.edu.tw (KYH); cheng78@hotmail.com (HTC)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin Chu City, Taiwan

Kuan-Yu Hung

kyhung@ntu.edu.tw (KYH); cheng78@hotmail.com (HTC)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWH KYH. Performed the experiments: JWH YCL HYW CJY CCP TWH CTS CKC HTC. Analyzed the data: JWH YCL HYW CJY CCP TWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWH YCL HYW CJY CCP TWH. Wrote the paper: JWH.