Kim, Hong Jin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8162-9585
Kim, Min-Ho http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4909-2308
Choi, Myeong Geun
Chun, Eun Mi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9616-2722
Article History
Received: 9 January 2024
Revised: 22 May 2024
Accepted: 24 May 2024
First Online: 4 June 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of our institute (IRB No.: EUMC 2022-07-003), which waived the requirement for informed consent because data analyses were performed retrospectively using anonymized data derived from the South Korean NHIS database.