Liang, Kae-Woei
Sheu, Wayne H.-H.
Lee, Wen-Jane
Wang, Jun-Sing
Lee, Wen-Lieng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH-1123103C, 1123103D, 1113104C, 1113102D, 1103101C, 1103102D)
Article History
Received: 8 September 2023
Accepted: 30 August 2024
First Online: 5 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: We conducted this study in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Our protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Taichung Veterans General Hospital (C08215; date of approval: February 2009 until February 2022). All study participants gave their informed consents.