About the Authors

An-Fu Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: An-Fu Lee, Man-Chin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Man-Chin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: An-Fu Lee, Man-Chin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chao-Ju Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Jen Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

ypliu@kmu.edu.tw (YPL); shyang@kmu.edu.tw (MSH); chjeya@cc.kmu.edu.tw (CJY)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ming-Shyang Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ypliu@kmu.edu.tw (YPL); shyang@kmu.edu.tw (MSH); chjeya@cc.kmu.edu.tw (CJY)

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yu-Peng Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ypliu@kmu.edu.tw (YPL); shyang@kmu.edu.tw (MSH); chjeya@cc.kmu.edu.tw (CJY)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.