About the Authors
- Shih-Wei Lin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shih-Wei Lin, Yen-Lung Chen
Affiliation Sleep Center, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tayuan, Taiwan
- Yen-Lung Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shih-Wei Lin, Yen-Lung Chen
Affiliations Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Kuo-Chin Kao
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Affiliations Department of Thoracic Medicine and Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Cheng-Ta Yang
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Affiliations Department of Thoracic Medicine and Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Li-Pang Chuang
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Affiliations Sleep Center, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tayuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Yu-Ting Chou
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Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan
- Szu-Chia Lai
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Affiliation Sleep Center, Movement Disorder Section, Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Rou-Shayn Chen
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Affiliation Sleep Center, Movement Disorder Section, Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Ning-Hung Chen
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* E-mail: ninghung@yahoo.com.tw, nhchen@cgmh.org.tw
Affiliation Sleep Center, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tayuan, Taiwan
Competing Interests
This study is partly sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline (XMRPG380121). The GlaxoSmithKline Company sponsored manpower of a research assistant for 6 months which cost around 8,000 USD. However, they have no role in study design and conduct, collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, or writing or approval of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: N-HC S-CL. Performed the experiments: S-WL Y-LC K-CK C-TY L-PC Y-TC S-CL R-SC N-HC. Analyzed the data: S-WL Y-LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: N-HC. Wrote the paper: S-WL Y-LC.