About the Authors

Hung-Ling Huang

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

Affiliations Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chia-Jung Liu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Meng-Rui Lee

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Meng-Hsuan Cheng

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Po-Liang Lu

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jann-Yuan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jann-Yuan Wang, Inn-Wen Chong

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

chong@kmu.edu.tw (IWC); jywang@ntu.edu.tw (JYW)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Inn-Wen Chong

Contributed equally to this work with: Jann-Yuan Wang, Inn-Wen Chong

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

chong@kmu.edu.tw (IWC); jywang@ntu.edu.tw (JYW)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Departments of Respiratory Therapy, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.