About the Authors

Cheng-Ping Shih

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Hung-Che Lin

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Chi-Hsiang Chung

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliations School of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Research, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Po-Jen Hsiao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, ROC

Chih-Hung Wang

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Jih-Chin Lee

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Wu-Chien Chien

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

chienwu@ndmctsgh.edu.tw

Affiliations School of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Research, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.