About the Authors

Ching-Chih Chang

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Shin Lee

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsian-Guey Hsieh

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chiao-Lin Chuang

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Hui-Chun Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui-Chun Huang, Fa-Yauh Lee

fylee@vghtpe.gov.tw (FYL); hchuang2@vghtpe.gov.tw (HCH)

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Fa-Yauh Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui-Chun Huang, Fa-Yauh Lee

fylee@vghtpe.gov.tw (FYL); hchuang2@vghtpe.gov.tw (HCH)

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shou-Dong Lee

Affiliations National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CCC FYL. Data curation: CLC HCH. Formal analysis: CCC WSL. Funding acquisition: CCC. Investigation: HGH CLC. Methodology: WSL. Project administration: HCH FYL. Resources: HGH. Software: WSL. Supervision: SDL. Validation: CLC HCH. Visualization: FYL SDL. Writing – original draft: CCC HCH. Writing – review & editing: CCC HCH FYL.