Kim, Hong Jin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8162-9585
Kim, Min-Ho https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4909-2308
Choi, Myeong Geun
Chun, Eun Mi https://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
Change Date: 22 July 2026
Change Type: Clarification
Change Details: Editor's note: Readers are alerted that concerns with this article have been raised with the Editors. Editorial action will be taken as appropriate once the concerns have been fully investigated.
Ethics
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethics: 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.