About the Authors
- Li-Fu Li
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Bao-Xiang Chen
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Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Section of Respiratory Care, Department of Integrated Diagno-Therapeutics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ying-Huang Tsai
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Winston W.-Y. Kao
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Affiliation Crawley Vision Research Center/Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Cheng-Ta Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Ta Yang, Pao-Hsien Chu
* E-mail: yang1946@adm.cgmh.org.tw (C-TY); pchu@adm.cgmh.org.tw (P-HC)
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Pao-Hsien Chu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Ta Yang, Pao-Hsien Chu
* E-mail: yang1946@adm.cgmh.org.tw (C-TY); pchu@adm.cgmh.org.tw (P-HC)
Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, The First Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: P-HC WW-YK. Performed the experiments: L-FL B-XC. Analyzed the data: L-FL B-XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-HT C-TY. Wrote the paper: L-FL C-TY P-HC.