About the Authors

Su-Kiat Chua

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Kou-Gi Shyu

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yuh-Feng Lin

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei, Taiwan

Huey-Ming Lo

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Bao-Wei Wang

Affiliation Central Laboratory, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hang Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hang Chang, Li-Ming Lien

M002177@ms.skh.org.tw (L-ML); baowei@ms22.hinet.net (CH)

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Ming Lien

Contributed equally to this work with: Hang Chang, Li-Ming Lien

M002177@ms.skh.org.tw (L-ML); baowei@ms22.hinet.net (CH)

Affiliations School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SKC. Data curation: SKC. Formal analysis: SKC. Funding acquisition: KGS SKC LML. Investigation: SKC YFL HML. Methodology: SKC KGS BWW LML. Project administration: SKC. Resources: SKC. Software: BWW. Supervision: HC LML. Validation: SKC. Visualization: SKC. Writing – original draft: SKC. Writing – review & editing: SKC.