About the Authors

Jiing-Chyuan Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiing-Chyuan Luo, Ming-Chih Hou

jcluo@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Ling Peng

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chih Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiing-Chyuan Luo, Ming-Chih Hou

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Endoscopic Center for Diagnosis and Therapy, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuang-Wei Huang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hui-Chun Huang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ying-Wen Wang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Healthcare and Management Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Han-Chieh Lin

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Fa-Yauh Lee

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Liang Lu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCL MCH. Performed the experiments: JCL YLP KWH HCH YWW. Analyzed the data: JCL HCL FYL CLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCL YLP MCH. Wrote the paper: JCL YLP KWH HCH YWW.