Liu, Chun-Lin
Lin, Ming-Yen
Hwang, Shang-Jyh
Liu, Ching-Kuan
Lee, Huei-Lan
Wu, Ming-Tsang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (NSC102-2314-B-037-012-MY3)
Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW103-TD-B-111-05, MOHW104-TDU-B-212-124-003 and MOHW105-TDU-B-212-134007)
Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung (SH000183)
Article History
Received: 8 December 2017
Accepted: 27 June 2018
First Online: 4 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital (KMUHIRB-SV(II)-20,170,052). Because all personal information that might identify the participants was scrambled in the secondary files prior to analysis, the review board waived the requirement for written informed consent. All research procedures followed the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: “Not applicable.” Because all personal information was scrambled in the database, we did not need to obtain consent for this publication. The interpretations and conclusions contained herein do not represent those of the NHI Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, or National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan.
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