Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Rheumatology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China.
• ² Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ³ Department of Rheumatology, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China.
• ⁴ Department of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁵ Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁶ Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan shc5555@hotmail.com.
• ⁷ Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁸ Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁹ School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Centre for Translational Medicine, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.