Hung, Chih-Hsing
Chen, Fang-Ming
Lin, Yi-Ching
Tsai, Mei-Lan
Wang, Shih-Ling
Chen, Yen-Chun
Chen, Yi-Ting
Hou, Ming-Feng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Center for Environmental Medicine of Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan (KMU-TP104A06)
National Science Council of the Republic of China (NSC 104-2314-B-037-070-MY3 & 103-2314-B-037-013)
Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital Research Foundation (KMUH102-2T04)
Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital (KMHKH-103-013 & KMHKH-104-003 & KMHKH-104-005 & KMHKH-105-007)
Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan. (MOHW 104-TDU-B-212-124-003)
Article History
Received: 20 July 2017
Accepted: 21 March 2018
First Online: 3 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All the procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consents were obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital.
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