About the Authors

Yung-Ho Hsu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Yen-Cheng Chen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tso-Hsiao Chen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yuh-Mou Sue

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tzu-Hurng Cheng

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Jia-Rung Chen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Cheng-Hsien Chen

hippy@tmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHH CHC. Performed the experiments: YCC YMS JRC. Analyzed the data: T.H. Chen CHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T.H. Cheng. Wrote the paper: YHH CHC.