Choi, Hyejin
Youm, Changhong
Park, Hwayoung
Kim, Bohyun
Hwang, Juseon
Cheon, Sang-Myung
Shin, Sungtae
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Korean government (2022R1A2C100933711, 2022R1A2C100933711)
Basic Science Research Program through the NRF, funded by the Ministry of Education (2022R1A6A3A0108756411)
Article History
Received: 27 May 2024
Accepted: 9 September 2024
First Online: 30 September 2024
Ethical approval
: All study procedures involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol and supplementary information files were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Dong-A University Hospital (IRB number: DAUHIRB-22-089) (see ethics approval letter in the supplementary file). All patients provided written informed consent before data collection. The study is registered in the Clinical Research Information Service in the Republic of Korea (KCT0009353).