About the Authors

I-Cheng Lee

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

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Gar-Yang Chau

Roles Data curation, Resources

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

Yi-Chen Yeh

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yee Chao

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cancer Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Teh-Ia Huo

Roles Data curation

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

Chien-Wei Su

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Han-Chieh Lin

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chih Hou

Roles Data curation

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

Yi-Hsiang Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

yhhuang@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.