About the Authors

Li-Ting Ho

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Hsian Yin

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Heart Center, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Shao-Yuan Chuang

Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Wei-Kung Tseng

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, I-Shou University and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yen-Wen Wu

Affiliation Cardiology Division of Cardiovascular Medical Center and Department of Nuclear Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

I-Chang Hsieh

Affiliation Second Department of Cardiology, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Tsung-Hsien Lin

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital and Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yi-Heng Li

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital and College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan

Lien-Chi Huang

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Taipei Union Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuo-Yang Wang

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital and Department of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Kwo-Chang Ueng

Affiliation School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University and Department of Internal Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Ching-Chang Fang

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Wen-Harn Pan

Affiliation Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Hung-I Yeh

Affiliation Mackay Memorial Hospital, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chau-Chung Wu

chauchungwu@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Primary Care Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jaw-Wen Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Institute of Pharmacology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Taiwanese Secondary Prevention for patients with AtheRosCLErotic disease (T-SPARCLE) Registry Investigators

Membership of the Taiwanese Secondary Prevention for patients with AtheRosCLErotic disease (T-SPARCLE) Registry Investigators is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LTH WHY HIY CCW JWC. Performed the experiments: LTH WHY WKT YWW ICH THL YHL LCH KYW KCU CCF HIY CCW JWC. Analyzed the data: SYC WHP CCW. Wrote the paper: LTH CCW.