About the Authors

Szu-Tah Chen

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chuen Hsueh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Wen-Ko Chiou

Affiliation Department of Industrial Design, Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jen-Der Lin

einjd@adm.cgmh.org.tw

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing financial interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STC JDL. Performed the experiments: CH WKC. Analyzed the data: STC WKC JDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CH WKC JDL. Wrote the paper: STC JDL.