About the Authors
- Yun-Yu Chen
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Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Yenn-Jiang Lin
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Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Eric Chong
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Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Cardiology, Jurong Health Private Limited, Singapore, Singapore
- Pei-Chun Chen
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Taz-Fan Chao
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Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Shih-Ann Chen
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Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Kuo-Liong Chien
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* E-mail: klchien@ntu.edu.tw
Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
E.C. is employed by Jurong Health Private Limited. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YYC YJL KLC. Performed the experiments: YYC. Analyzed the data: YYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YYC YJL EC PCC TFC SAC KLC. Wrote the paper: YYC YJL EC KLC. Contributed to study design and writing paper: YYC YJL KLC. Contributed to reviewing and revising this work: EC PCC TFC SAC. Accessed the whole datasets and data analyses from the Collaboration Center of Health Information Application, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan: YYC KLC.