Associations of cigarette smoking and burden of thoracic aortic calcification in asymptomatic individuals: A dose-response relationship

• Jui-Peng Tsai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jui-Peng Tsai, Ya-Ting Jan

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ya-Ting Jan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jui-Peng Tsai, Ya-Ting Jan

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chun-Ho Yun,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Tzu Sung,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chuan-Chuan Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Health Evaluation Center, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Technology, Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

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• Jen-Yuan Kuo,

  Roles Software

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chung-Lieh Hung ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jotaro3791@gmail.com (CLH); tung@ym.edu.tw (THW)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2858-3493

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• Tung-Hsin Wu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jotaro3791@gmail.com (CLH); tung@ym.edu.tw (THW)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jiun-Lu Lin,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Charles Jia-Yin Hou,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hung-I Yeh,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hiram G. Bezerra,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Department, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

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• Aaron So

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Imaging Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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