About the Authors

Ching-Tsai Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Wen-Nan Huang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Wen-Chan Tsai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jun-Peng Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Wei-Ting Hung

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Tsu-Yi Hsieh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Hsin-Hua Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine & Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Wei Hsieh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine & Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Kuo-Lung Lai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Kuo-Tung Tang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine & Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Wei Tseng

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Der-Yuan Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Rheumatology and Immunology Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Hsin Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

ymchen1@vghtc.gov.tw (YMC); ysanne@vghtc.gov.tw (YHC)

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Ming Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

ymchen1@vghtc.gov.tw (YMC); ysanne@vghtc.gov.tw (YHC)

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine & Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.