About the Authors

Hugo Y.-H. Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tiffany Shien

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States of America

Juan-Wei Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yen-Jung Kuo

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Post Baccalaureat Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Phang-Lang Chen

Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Sheng-Wen Niu

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

I-Ching Kuo

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hsuan-Fu Kuo

Roles Visualization

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kai-Chieh Yang

Roles Resources

Affiliation KURA CARE INC, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Yi-Ren Yeh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yryeh@nknu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.