About the Authors

Yen-Wei Pai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neurological Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Ching-Heng Lin

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

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

Shih-Yi Lin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

I-Te Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: I-Te Lee, Ming-Hong Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

cmh50@ms10.hinet.net (MHC); itlee@vghtc.gov.tw (ITL)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ming-Hong Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: I-Te Lee, Ming-Hong Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

cmh50@ms10.hinet.net (MHC); itlee@vghtc.gov.tw (ITL)

Affiliations Neurological Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.