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Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ² Department of Psychology, College of Medical and Health Science, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ³ Prospect Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology & Neurology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Institute of Precision Medicine, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
• ⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Beitou Branch, Tri-Service General Hospital; School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁶ Department of Psychiatry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ⁹ Institute of Health Data Analytics & Statistics, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ¹⁰ Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.