About the Authors

Pin-Sung Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Pin-Sung Liu, Huei-Kai Huang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Center for Aging and Health, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan

Huei-Kai Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pin-Sung Liu, Huei-Kai Huang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Departments of Family Medicine and Medical Research, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, and Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Dah-Ching Ding

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dah1003@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, and Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist