About the Authors

Tzu-Lin Yeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chieh Tsai

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, MacKay Memorial College, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Wen-Hsuan Tsai

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Yu-Kang Tu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuo-Liong Chien

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

klchien@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.