About the Authors

Hon-Yen Wu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Chiao-Ling Peng

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Pei-Chun Chen

Affiliation Clinical Informatics & Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Chih-Kang Chiang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan

Chee-Jen Chang

Affiliation Clinical Informatics & Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Jenq-Wen Huang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan

Yu-Sen Peng

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan

Yu-Kang Tu

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Tzong-Shinn Chu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan

Kuan-Yu Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuan-Yu Hung, Kuo-Liong Chien

kyhung@ntu.edu.tw (KYH); klchien@ntu.edu.tw (KLC)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Kuo-Liong Chien

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuan-Yu Hung, Kuo-Liong Chien

kyhung@ntu.edu.tw (KYH); klchien@ntu.edu.tw (KLC)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HYW YKT TSC KYH KLC. Data curation: PCC CKC CJC YSP. Formal analysis: HYW CLP JWH YSP. Funding acquisition: HYW. Investigation: HYW CLP. Methodology: PCC YKT JWH. Project administration: CJC CKC TSC. Resources: TSC KYH KLC. Software: HYW CLP PCC KLC. Supervision: CJC CKC TSC KYH KLC. Validation: YKT KYH KLC. Visualization: HYW CLP. Writing – original draft: HYW CLP PCC YKT KLC. Writing – review & editing: CJC CKC JWH YSP TSC KYH.