About the Authors

Wei-Hung Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Hung Lin, Ming-Cheng Wang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University Hospital, National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Ming-Cheng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Hung Lin, Ming-Cheng Wang

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Wei-Ming Wang

Affiliation Biostatistics Consulting Center, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Deng-Chi Yang

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chen-Fuh Lam

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan

Jun-Neng Roan

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University Hospital, National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

Chung-Yi Li

cyli99@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations Department and Graduate Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WHL MCW WMW LHC CYL. Analyzed the data: WHL WMW CYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WHL MCW DCY CFL JNR CYL. Wrote the paper: WHL MCW CYL. Had access to the data and played a role in writing this manuscript: WHL MCW WMW DCY CFL JNR CYL.