Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2022R1A2C1007169)
National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2020-NR049579)
Article History
Received: 13 May 2025
Revised: 29 November 2025
Accepted: 7 December 2025
First Online: 13 January 2026
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Mu Sook Lee.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: All of the authors have significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board due to the retrospective nature of the study and use of de-identified, pre-existing clinical data.
: The Institutional Review Board of Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center approved this retrospective study (IRB No. DSM-2022-08-007). All methods were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration.
: None of the study subjects or cohorts has been previously reported.
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