Sohn, Il Suk
Kim, Minseo
Lee, Mun Bae
Hyeon, Eunche
Yang, So-Young
Seo, Hyungseok
Kwon, Oh In
Park, Soonchan
Ryu, Chang-Woo
Jahng, Geon-Ho
Article History
Received: 9 September 2025
Revised: 8 December 2025
Accepted: 17 December 2025
First Online: 8 January 2026
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong in Seoul, Republic of Korea, approved this cross-sectional prospective study (IRB khnmc2022-10-036), and written informed consent was obtained from the participants.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, and the applicable revisions at the time of the investigation. The written informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.