About the Authors

Der-Yuan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Der-Yuan Chen, Ching-Heng Lin

Affiliations Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ching-Heng Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Der-Yuan Chen, Ching-Heng Lin

Affiliation Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Ming Chen

Affiliations Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Hsin-Hua Chen

shc5555@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: H-HC. Data curation: C-HL H-HC. Formal analysis: C-HL H-HC. Funding acquisition: H-HC. Investigation: C-HL H-HC. Methodology: D-YC H-HC. Project administration: H-HC. Resources: C-HL. Software: C-HL. Supervision: D-YC H-HC. Validation: Y-MC. Visualization: H-HC. Writing – original draft: D-YC Y-MC. Writing – review & editing: H-HC.