About the Authors

Shu-Chi Wang

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Chi Wang, Kuan-Ru Lai

Affiliation Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Chia-Yang Li

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Guann-Yi Yu

Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Naoya Sakamoto

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Wen-Yu Tu

Affiliation Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Meng-Hsuan Hsieh

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

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

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

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

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.