About the Authors

Yih-Ting Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Heng-Jung Hsu

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Cheng-Kai Hsu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Chin-Chan Lee

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Kuang-Hung Hsu

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Healthy Aging Research Center, Laboratory for Epidemiology, Department of Health Care Management, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chiao-Yin Sun

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Chun-Yu Chen

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Yung-Chang Chen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

Yi-Ching Yu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan

I-Wen Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

fliawu@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.