Oh, Jiyeon
Kim, Soeun
Woo, Selin
Park, Jaeyu
Kim, Hyeon Jin
Fond, Guillaume
Boyer, Laurent
Rahmati, Masoud
Smith, Lee
López Sánchez, Guillermo F.
Pizzol, Damiano
Lee, Jinseok
Lee, Hayeon
Sung, Hyuna
Shin, Jae Il
Kang, Jiseung https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3734-7572
Yon, Dong Keon
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (IITP-2024-RS-2024-00438239)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2024
Revised: 24 June 2025
Accepted: 24 June 2025
First Online: 5 August 2025
Declarations
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: No financial or non-financial benefits have been received or will be received from any party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article. Author YDK is a member of the Editorial Board for World Journal of Pediatrics. The paper was handled by the other editor and has undergone rigorous peer review process. Author YDK was not involved in the journal’s review of, or decision related to this manuscript.
: This study used de-identified secondary data from the WHO Mortality Database, which collects and aggregates mortality data from member states based on civil registration systems. As the data are anonymised and publicly available, no informed consent from participants was required.