1. Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
2. School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
3. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
4. Intelligent data mining laboratory, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
5. Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
6. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
7. Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering, College of Computing and Informatics, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan
8. Divisions of Nephrology and Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
9. Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
10. Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan