Li, Cheng-Ta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0670-1153
Chang, Wan-Chen
Cheng, Chih-Ming https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8334-0438
Su, Tung-Ping
Bai, Ya-Mei
Tu, Pei-Chi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-4660
Article History
Received: 13 December 2024
Revised: 13 May 2025
Accepted: 17 June 2025
First Online: 28 June 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Taipei Veterans General Hospital Institutional Review Board. The study was preregistered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR). Registration number: UMIN000044951. Informed consent was provided by all the participants.