Chen, Huang-Chi
Wu, Chia-Fang
Chong, Inn-Wen
Wu, Ming-Tsang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU-TP104A00, KMU-TP104A07)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST104-2314-B-037-012-MY2)
National Health Research Institutes (NHRI-EX102-10209PI)
Article History
Received: 22 March 2017
Accepted: 1 February 2018
First Online: 13 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Participants were informed of the details of the study and inform consent was obtained and documented in the questionnaire form before specimen collection. This study was approved by IRB at Kaohsiung Medical University. All participants provided signed informed consent. The use of this dataset has been approved by Taiwan’s Kao-Ping District National Health Insurance Bureau, a branch of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Program.
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