About the Authors

Ta-Wei Hsu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan

Ko-Lin Kuo

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi Hospital Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan

Szu-Chun Hung

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Buddhist Tzu Chi Hospital Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Hsun Huang

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jaw-Wen Chen

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Der-Cherng Tarng

dctarng@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department and Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T-WH D-CT. Performed the experiments: T-WH P-HH J-WC. Analyzed the data: D-CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K-LK S-CH P-HH J-WC. Wrote the paper: T-WH D-CT. Reviewed and edited the manuscript: D-CT.