About the Authors

Yen-Wen Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yen-Wen Wu, Ping-Huei Tseng

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology Division of Cardiovascular Medical Center, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Ping-Huei Tseng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yen-Wen Wu, Ping-Huei Tseng

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Chia Lee

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shan-Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology Division of Cardiovascular Medical Center, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Han-Mo Chiu

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

Chia-Hung Tu

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

Hsiu-Po Wang

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

Jaw-Town Lin

Affiliations School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ming-Shiang Wu

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

Wei-Shiung Yang

wsyang@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YWW PHT HPW JTL MSW WSY. Performed the experiments: YWW PHT YCL SYW HMC CHT. Analyzed the data: YWW PHT SYW CHT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PHT YCL HMC CHT. Wrote the paper: YWW PHT YCL.