About the Authors

Ming-Cheng Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, Graduate Institute of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Hung-Rong Yen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan, Chinese Medicine Research Center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Cheng-Li Lin

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Management Office of Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yu-Chen Lee

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Mao-Feng Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Mao-Feng Sun, Mei-Yao Wu

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

meiyaowu0919@gmail.com (MYW); maofeng@mail.cmuh.org.tw (MFS)

Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Mei-Yao Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mao-Feng Sun, Mei-Yao Wu

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

meiyaowu0919@gmail.com (MYW); maofeng@mail.cmuh.org.tw (MFS)

Affiliations Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Post-Baccalaureate Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

No authors have competing interests.