About the Authors

Yueh-An Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yueh-An Lu, Kun-Hua Tu

Affiliations Kidney Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Kun-Hua Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yueh-An Lu, Kun-Hua Tu

Affiliations Kidney Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Cheng-Chia Lee

Affiliations Kidney Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Patricia W. Wu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

Chee-Jen Chang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Research Services Center for Health Information, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Clinical Informatics and Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Ya-Chung Tian

Affiliations Kidney Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chih-Wei Yang

Affiliations Kidney Research Center, Department of Nephrology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Pao-Hsien Chu

taipei.chu@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Healthcare Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Heart Failure Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: P-HC C-CL. Data curation: Y-AL K-HT C-CL. Formal analysis: C-CL P-HC C-JC. Funding acquisition: P-HC C-JC. Investigation: P-HC C-CL. Methodology: Y-AL K-HT PWW Y-CT. Project administration: P-HC. Resources: Y-AL Y-CT C-WY. Software: Y-AL PWW. Supervision: P-HC. Validation: Y-CT C-WY P-HC. Visualization: P-HC. Writing – original draft: Y-AL K-HT C-CL. Writing – review & editing: P-HC C-WY Y-CT.