About the Authors

Shiu-Dong Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiu-Dong Chung, Chung-Chien Huang, Herng-Ching Lin

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Banciao, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Program in Biomedical Informatics, College of Informatics, Yuan-Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, Sleep Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Chien Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiu-Dong Chung, Chung-Chien Huang, Herng-Ching Lin

Affiliation School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Herng-Ching Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiu-Dong Chung, Chung-Chien Huang, Herng-Ching Lin

Affiliations Sleep Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chieh Tsai

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cathay General Hospital, Hsinchu Branch, Taiwan

Chao-Hung Chen

s448@eip.mkc.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Cosmetic Applications and Management, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department & Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SDC HCL CHC. Formal analysis: CCH HCL. Methodology: HCL CCH. Supervision: CHC. Validation: SDC CCH HCL MCT CHC. Writing – original draft: SDC HCL MCT CHC. Writing – review & editing: SDC CCH HCL MCT CHC.