Tsai, Shih-Jen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9987-022X
Kao, Chung-Feng
Su, Tung-Ping
Li, Cheng-Ta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0670-1153
Lin, Wei-Chen
Hong, Chen-Jee
Bai, Ya-Mei
Tu, Pei-Chi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-4660
Chen, Mu-Hong http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6516-1073
Article History
Accepted: 15 January 2023
First Online: 10 February 2023
Declarations
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: The study was supported by grant from Taipei Veterans General Hospital (V111C-010, V111C-040, V111C-029), Yen Tjing Ling Medical Foundation (CI-109-21, CI-109-22, CI-110-30), Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST110-2314-B-075-026, MOST110-2314-B-075-024-MY3, MOST109-2314-B-010-050-MY3, MOST111-2314-B-075-014-MY2, MOST111-2314-B-075 -013), Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Tri-Service General Hospital, Academia Sinica Joint Research Program (VTA112-V1-6-1) and Veterans General Hospitals and University System of Taiwan Joint Research Program (VGHUST112-G1-8-1). The funding source had no role in any process of our study.
: Shih-Jen Tsai, Chung-Feng Kao, Tung-Ping Su, Cheng-Ta Li, Wei-Chen Lin, Chen-Jee Hong, Ya-Mei Bai<sub>,</sub> Pei-Chi Tu, and Mu-Hong Chen have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Taipei Veterans General Hospital Institutional Review Board. This clinical trial is registered at UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) [trial registration number: UMIN000016985].
: Informed consent was provided by all of the participants.
: No identified confidential data were included in the study.
: The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available because of Taiwan’s clinical trial ethical regulation but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Analytic codes are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Conceptualization: MHC and TPS; methodology: MHC, TPS, SJT, and CFK; formal analysis: MHC and CFK; investigation: MHC, TPS, CTL, and WCL; writing, original draft: MHC, SJT, and CFK; writing, review and editing: all authors. All authors have read and approved the final submitted manuscript, and agree to be accountable for the work.