About the Authors

I-Kuan Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Tzung-Hai Yen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chon-Haw Tsai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

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

Yu Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations Neurology, En Chu Kong Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Wei-Lun Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua County, Taiwan

Po-Lin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

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

Ta-Chang Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Division of Neurology Department of Internal Medicine, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Yen Yeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neurology, St. Martin De Porres Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Cheng-Yu Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Cheng-Li Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

Kai-Cheng Hsu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chi-Yuan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Yuan Li, Fung-Chang Sung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, China Medical University College of Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan

Fung-Chang Sung

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Yuan Li, Fung-Chang Sung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

fcsung1008@yahoo.com

Affiliations Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University College of Public Health, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Food Nutrition and Health Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chung Y. Hsu

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

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, China Medical University College of Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan

Taiwan Stroke Registry Investigators

The complete membership of the author group “Taiwan Stroke Registry Investigators” can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.