Lee, Kyung-Ann https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7499-6363
Kim, Yon Hee
Kim, Hyun-Sook https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9213-7140
Funding for this research was provided by:
Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF-2019-04)
Soonchunhyang University (2025)
Article History
Received: 24 June 2025
Revised: 1 October 2025
Accepted: 7 November 2025
First Online: 13 November 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital (approval number: 2019–10-022). The requirement for patient approval or informed consent was waived by the IRB of Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital due to the retrospective nature of the study and anonymity of the clinical data.
: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.