About the Authors
- Ping-Yen Liu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Yen Liu, Liang-Yu Lin
Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
- Liang-Yu Lin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ping-Yen Liu, Liang-Yu Lin
Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Hung-Ju Lin
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Chien-Hsun Hsia
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
- Yi-Ren Hung
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Hung-I Yeh
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Tao-Cheng Wu
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Ju-Yi Chen
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan
- Kuo-Liong Chien
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* E-mail: jwchen@vghtpe.gov.tw (JWC); klchien@ntu.edu.tw (KLC)
Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Jaw-Wen Chen
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* E-mail: jwchen@vghtpe.gov.tw (JWC); klchien@ntu.edu.tw (KLC)
Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine and Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
During study period, the Kowa company from Japan funded the medicine for the clinical trial. The authors did not belong to any employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products, etc. This medicine support did not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KLC JWC. Performed the experiments: PYL LYL HJL CHH YRH HIY TCW JYC KLC JWC. Analyzed the data: PYL LYL HJL CHH YRH HIY TCW JYC KLC JWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLC JWC PYL LYL HJL. Wrote the manuscript: PYL LYL.