About the Authors

Heng-Cheng Chang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsin-Chou Yang

Affiliation Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsing-Yi Chang

Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Chih-Jung Yeh

Affiliation School of Public Health, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Hsin-Hung Chen

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health Science, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan

Kuo-Chin Huang

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

Wen-Harn Pan

pan@ibms.sinica.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HCC WHP. Data curation: HYC CJY WHP. Formal analysis: HCC. Investigation: HCC HCY WHP. Methodology: HCC HCY WHP. Project administration: WHP. Supervision: HCY WHP. Validation: HCC HCY WHP. Visualization: HCC WHP. Writing – original draft: HCC. Writing – review & editing: HCC HCY HHC KCH WHP.