About the Authors
- Shu-Chi Wang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Chi Wang, Kuan-Ru Lai
Affiliation Health Management Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Kuan-Ru Lai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Chi Wang, Kuan-Ru Lai
Affiliation Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
- Chia-Yang Li
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Affiliations Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Chi-Shiun Chiang
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Guann-Yi Yu
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Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan
- Naoya Sakamoto
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
- Wen-Yu Tu
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Affiliation Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Meng-Hsuan Hsieh
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Affiliations Health Management Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Jee-Fu Huang
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Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Wan-Long Chuang
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Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Chia-Yen Dai
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* E-mail: fish6069@gmail.com (ML); daichiayen@gmail.com (CD)
Affiliations Health Management Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Ming-Lung Yu
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* E-mail: fish6069@gmail.com (ML); daichiayen@gmail.com (CD)
Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Lipid and Glycomedicine Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: SW ML. Data curation: SW WT CL MH CD MY. Formal analysis: SW WT MH. Investigation: SW WT MH CL Y. Methodology: SW CL CC. Project administration: JH WC CD MY. Resources: GY NS. Supervision: CL CC MY. Validation: WT KL. Visualization: SW WT CL. Writing – original draft: SW. Writing – review & editing: CL CC Y.