Reply to Letter to the editor by Thompson et al

Affiliations

• ¹ The Cardiovascular Department, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
• ² College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
• ³ School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Microscopy Core Laboratory, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
• ⁵ Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City 33302, Taiwan.
• ⁶ Biostatistics Core Laboratory, Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City 33302, Taiwan.
• ⁷ Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan City 33305, Taiwan.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁹ Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.