Liang, Chih-Sung
Chung, Chi-Hsiang
Tsai, Chia-Kuang
Chien, Wu-Chien
Article History
Received: 2 September 2016
Accepted: 14 September 2016
First Online: 15 October 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects at the Tri-Service General Hospital, a medical teaching hospital within the National Defense Medical Center in Taiwan, approved the protocol.
: Informed consent was originally obtained by the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan. The privacy of each individual’s information was protected using encrypted personal identification to avoid the potential for ethical violations related to the data.