About the Authors

Yeh-Wen Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yeh-Wen Chu, Hsuan-Ming Lin

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Hsuan-Ming Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yeh-Wen Chu, Hsuan-Ming Lin

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan

Jhi-Joung Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Shih-Feng Weng

Affiliation Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Ching Lin

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Chiang Chien

ccchien58@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YWC JJW CCC. Data curation: YWC CCC. Formal analysis: YWC CCC. Funding acquisition: JJW CCC. Investigation: YWC CCC. Methodology: YWC HML SFW CCL CCC. Project administration: YWC JJW CCC. Resources: YWC JJW CCC. Software: CCC. Validation: YWC JJW CCC. Visualization: YWC JJW CCC. Writing – original draft: YWC. Writing – review & editing: YWC JJW CCC.