About the Authors
- Chih-Wei Tseng
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzuchi University, Hualien, Taiwan
- Chi-Yi Chen
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
- Ting-Tsung Chang
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
- Shinn-Jia Tzeng
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Affiliation Department of Agronomy, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan
- Yu-Hsi Hsieh
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzuchi University, Hualien, Taiwan
- Tsung-Hsing Hung
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzuchi University, Hualien, Taiwan
- Ching-Chih Lee
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Affiliation Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
- Shu-Fen Wu
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
- Kuo-Chih Tseng
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* E-mail: tsengkuochih@gmail.com
Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzuchi University, Hualien, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KCT TTC. Performed the experiments: CWT CYC KCT YHH THH. Analyzed the data: CWT SJT CCL SFW KCT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHH THH CYC. Wrote the paper: CWT.