Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
9
June
2016
Publication date Collection: 2016
Volume: 11
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0156467
Affiliations
[1
]Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan
[2
]Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital,
Taipei branch, Taipei City, Taiwan
[3
]Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital,
Taipei branch, Taipei City, Taiwan
[4
]The Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National
Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
University of Minnesota, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Conceived and designed the experiments: CLH JYK HIY. Performed the experiments: CC
CLH. Analyzed the data: CC CCL KTS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools:
HIY CLH SCS. Wrote the paper: CC CJYH CLH. Conceptual frame work: HIY.
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-15-49290
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156467
PMC ID: 4900638
PubMed ID: 27280886
SO-VID: 90a361ee-2edb-4696-b883-bb95943f1fbe
Copyright © © 2016 Chen et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
This work was partly supported by grants of the National Science Council (NSC 103-2314-B-010-005-MY3,
103-2314-B-195-001-MY3, 101-2314-B-195 -020 -MY1, MOST 103-2314-B-195-006-MY3), and
Mackay Memorial Hospital (10271, 10248, 10220, 10253, 10375, 10358, E-102003). The
funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish,
or preparation of the manuscript.
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