Article History
Accepted: 20 March 2022
First Online: 17 May 2022
Declarations
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: No sources of funding were received for the preparation of this article.
: Yung-Tsu Cho and Chia-Yu Chu have received lecture fees from Roche Taiwan Co. Ltd. Yun-Ju Tsai has no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the content of this article.
: The study was approved by the National Taiwan University Hospital Research Ethics Committee (201703053RIND).
: Not applicable. The results presented in the current study do not risk compromising the complete anonymity of patients included.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets analyzed during the current study are not publicly available because of the regulations of our institute on patient confidentiality and anonymity, but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: All codes for statistical data analysis were performed with either publicly or commercially available statistical software or modules, including IBM SPSS Statistics 19, GraphPad Prism, and modules in R language.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Yun-Ju Tsai. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Yun-Ju Tsai and all authors contributed to the critical revision and editing on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.