Funding for this research was provided by:
Taipei Veterans General Hospital (V111C-099)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 110-2314-B-075-054-MY3)
Article History
Received: 9 June 2022
Accepted: 20 September 2022
First Online: 29 September 2022
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (name of institute/committee) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All procedures were performed under the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki and informed consent was obtained from the subject.
: Regarding the welfare of animals, no animal was used in this research.