About the Authors

Kuei-Chuan Lee

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

Che-Chang Chan

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

Ying-Ying Yang

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

Yun-Cheng Hsieh

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

Yi-Hsiang Huang

yhhuang@vghtpe.gov.tw (YHH); hclin@vghtpe.gov.tw (HCL)

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

Han-Chieh Lin

yhhuang@vghtpe.gov.tw (YHH); hclin@vghtpe.gov.tw (HCL)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCL CCC YHH HCL. Performed the experiments: KCL CCC YCH. Analyzed the data: KCL CCC YYY YCH YHH HCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCL CCC YHH HCL. Wrote the manuscript: KCL CCC HCL.