About the Authors

Chih-Ching Yang

Affiliations Department of Planning, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-An Yao

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

Yi-Ruu Lin

Affiliation Water Resources Division, Stone and Resource Industry Research and Development Center, Hualien, Taiwan

Jyh-Chin Yang

jcyang47@ntu.edu.tw

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

Chiang-Ting Chien

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCY CCY CTC. Performed the experiments: JCY CAY YRL CCY CTC. Analyzed the data: JCY CAY CCY CTC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAY YRL CCY CTC. Wrote the paper: JCY CCY CTC.