About the Authors

Yung-Sung Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Sung Huang, Malcolm Koo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan

Malcolm Koo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Sung Huang, Malcolm Koo

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jin-Cherng Chen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien City, Taiwan

Juen-Haur Hwang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juenhaur@ms96.url.com.tw

Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien City, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.