About the Authors

Tze-Fan Chao

Contributed equally to this work with: Tze-Fan Chao, Chung-Lieh Hung

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Lieh Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Tze-Fan Chao, Chung-Lieh Hung

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Health Industry Management, Kainan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Hsuan-Ming Tsao

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, National Yang Ming University Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan

Yenn-Jiang Lin

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Ho Yun

Affiliation Division of Radiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yau-Huei Lai

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Lin Chang

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Wei Lo

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Feng Hu

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ta-Chuan Tuan

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-Yu Chang

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jen-Yuan Kuo

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-I Yeh

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsu-Juey Wu

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ming-Hsiung Hsieh

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Chung Yu

wcyu@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Ann Chen

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T-FC C-LH W-CY S-AC. Performed the experiments: H-MT C-HY Y-HL. Analyzed the data: T-FC C-LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-JL S-LC L-WL Y-FH T-CT H-YC J-YK H-IY T-JW M-HH. Wrote the manuscript: T-FC W-CY.