Impact of metformin use on the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after initial liver resection in diabetic patients

• Wei-Ru Cho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9232-5424

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• Chih-Chi Wang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University Medical College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Meng-Yun Tsai,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chen-Kai Chou,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Yueh-Wei Liu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University Medical College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Yi-Ju Wu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University Medical College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Tsung Lin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Kuang-Den Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Center for Translational Research in Biomedical Sciences, Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Ching-Hui Chuang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan

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• Pao-Yuan Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Tsung-Hui Hu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Chao Tsai

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

  * E-mail: tony0779@gmail.com

  Affiliations Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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