About the Authors

Yu-Chiang Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chiang Hung, Yu-Chen Cheng

hungyuchiang@gmail.com (YCH); oolonghu@gmail.com (WLH)

Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine for Post Baccalaureate, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yu-Chen Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chiang Hung, Yu-Chen Cheng

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Hsin Muo

Affiliation Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Hsienhsueh Elley Chiu

Affiliation School of Chinese Medicine for Post Baccalaureate, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chun-Ting Liu

Affiliation Department of Chinese Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wen-Long Hu

hungyuchiang@gmail.com (YCH); oolonghu@gmail.com (WLH)

Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Medical University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Fooyin University College of Nursing, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCH WLH. Performed the experiments: YCH WLH YCC CHM. Analyzed the data: CHM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHM. Wrote the paper: YCH WLH YCC CHM. Critically reviewed the manuscript: HEC CTL.