About the Authors

Wen-Chien Huang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medicine College, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Hsin-Chi Tsai

Affiliations School of Medicine Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Psychiatry, Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC

Chi-Wei Tao

Affiliation Section of Respiratory Therapy, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Jung-Sheng Chen

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Yi-Jia Shih

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC

Po-Min Kao

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC

Tung-Yi Huang

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC

Bing-Mu Hsu

bmhsu@ccu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WCH BMH. Data curation: WCH BMH PMK. Formal analysis: WCH BMH. Funding acquisition: WCH BMH. Investigation: HCT CWT JSC YJS PMK TYH. Methodology: WCH BMH JSC PMK. Project administration: BMH. Resources: HCT CWT JSC YJS PMK TYH. Software: HCT CWT JSC YJS PMK TYH. Supervision: BMH. Validation: JSC YJS PMK TYH. Visualization: WCH BMH PMK. Writing – original draft: PMK WCH BMH. Writing – review & editing: WCH BMH TYH.