About the Authors

Chin-Chung Shu

Affiliations Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, College of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Vin-Cent Wu

Affiliations College of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

Feng-Jung Yang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin County, Taiwan

Sung-Ching Pan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

Tai-Shuan Lai

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei City, Taiwan

Jann-Yuan Wang

jywang@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations College of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

Jann-Tay Wang

Affiliations College of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

Li-Na Lee

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LNL JYW CCS. Performed the experiments: CCS FJY SCP TSL JTW VCW. Analyzed the data: JYW CCS. Wrote the paper: JYW VCW CCS.