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Chen, Ping-Ling
Pai, Chih-Wei https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-2685
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (103-2221-E-038-020-MY2; 105-222-E-038 -013-MY3)
Taipei Medical University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (105-TMU-NTUST-105-06)
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Received: 22 July 2018
Accepted: 30 October 2018
First Online: 31 December 2018
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