About the Authors

Hsin-Hua Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong-Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Cheng Chao

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Tsai-Ling Liao

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong-Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ching-Heng Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Heng Lin, Der-Yuan Chen

Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

dychen@vghtc.gov.tw (DYC); epid@vghtc.gov.tw (CHL)

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

Der-Yuan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Heng Lin, Der-Yuan Chen

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

dychen@vghtc.gov.tw (DYC); epid@vghtc.gov.tw (CHL)

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong-Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.