About the Authors

Ming-Sheng Teng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Lung-An Hsu

Roles Resources

Affiliation The First Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Shu-Hui Juan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Chi Lin

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Cheng Lee

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Cheng-Wen Su

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Semon Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

semonwu@yahoo.com.tw (SW); yulinkotw@yahoo.com.tw (YLK)

Affiliations Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Lin Ko

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

semonwu@yahoo.com.tw (SW); yulinkotw@yahoo.com.tw (YLK)

Affiliations Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Cardiovascular Center and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine and Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.