About the Authors

Shu-Li Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Li Wang, Cheng-Ho Chang

Affiliation Department of Dental Laboratory Technology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

Cheng-Ho Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Li Wang, Cheng-Ho Chang

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Li-Yu Hu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shih-Jen Tsai

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

Albert C. Yang

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Center for Dynamical Biomarkers and Translational Medicine, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan

Zi-Hong You

zihongyou@gmail.com

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chia-Yi Branch, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLW LYH ZHY. Performed the experiments: SLW LYH SJT ACY. Analyzed the data: SLW LYH CHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJT ACY. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SLW LYH ZHY.