About the Authors

Wen-Yeh Hsieh

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Yeh Hsieh, Teng-Hsiang Chang

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hsinchu Mackay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Teng-Hsiang Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Yeh Hsieh, Teng-Hsiang Chang

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Hui-Fang Chang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hsinchu Mackay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Wan-Hsuan Chuang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Li-Che Lu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Wei Yang

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsinchu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chih-Sheng Lin

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

lincs@mail.nctu.edu.tw (CSL); chiachuchang0312@gmail.com (CCC)

Affiliations Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Center for Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices (IDS2B), National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chia-Chu Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

lincs@mail.nctu.edu.tw (CSL); chiachuchang0312@gmail.com (CCC)

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Environmental and Precision Medicine Laboratory, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Department of Nutrition, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.