About the Authors

Jui-Kun Chiang

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Dalin Tzuchi Hospital, Buddhist Tzuchi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan

Ying-Lung Lin

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Dalin Tzuchi Hospital, Buddhist Tzuchi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan

Chi-Ling Chen

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Mei Ouyang

Affiliation Department of Dietetics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ying-Tai Wu

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Chiao Chi

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuo-Chin Huang

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Shiung Yang

wsyang@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKC YLL CMO YTW KCH WSY. Performed the experiments: JKC CLC YCC. Analyzed the data: JKC CLC YCC WSY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKC CLC YCC. Wrote the paper: JKC CLC WSY. Designed the software used in analysis: JKC CLC.