About the Authors

Cheng-Kai Hsu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Chin-Chan Lee

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

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Yih-Ting Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Ming-Kuo Ting

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Chiao-Yin Sun

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Chun-Yu Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Heng-Jung Hsu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Yung-Chang Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

I-Wen Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fliawu@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.