About the Authors

Hsiu-Nien Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsiu-Nien Shen, Wen-Ching Wang

Affiliations Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Wen-Ching Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsiu-Nien Shen, Wen-Ching Wang

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Chin-Li Lu

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chung-Yi Li

cyli99@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained funding: HNS WCW. Conceived and designed the experiments: HNS WCW CLL CYL. Analyzed the data: HNS CLL CYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HNS CLL. Wrote the paper: HNS WCW.