About the Authors

Cheng-Che Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Che Shen, Yu-Wen Hu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Yu-Wen Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Che Shen, Yu-Wen Hu

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Li-Yu Hu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Yuli Veterans Hospital, Hualian, Taiwan

Man-Hsin Hung

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tung-Ping Su

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Min-Wei Huang

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Chia-Fen Tsai

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shuo-Ming Ou

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Sang-Hue Yen

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Hwai Tzeng

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tzeon-Jye Chiou

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tzeng-Ji Chen

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Jen Liu

chiajenliu@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCS LYH. Analyzed the data: CCS YWH CJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHH TPS MWH CFT SMO SHY CHT TJC TJC. Wrote the paper: CCS YWH.