Association of iron deficiency anemia with tuberculosis in Taiwan: A nationwide population-based study

• Kuo-An Chu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-An Chu, Chun-Hsiang Hsu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Shu-Zen Junior College of Medicine and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chun-Hsiang Hsu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-An Chu, Chun-Hsiang Hsu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Mei-Chen Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yi-Hsin Chu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Yao-Min Hung ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ymhung1@gmail.com (YMH); jccwei@gmail.com (JCCW)

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Municipal United Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Yuhing Junior College of Health Care and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6920-8799

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• James Cheng-Chung Wei

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ymhung1@gmail.com (YMH); jccwei@gmail.com (JCCW)

  Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, BenQ Medical Center, The Affiliated BenQ Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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