Hwang, Juseon
Youm, Changhong
Park, Hwayoung
Kim, Bohyun
Choi, Hyejin
Cheon, Sang-Myung
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2022R1A2C100933711)
Basic Science Research Program through the NRF (2022R1A6A3A0108756411)
Article History
Received: 3 October 2024
Accepted: 18 December 2024
First Online: 2 January 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: 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 with the Clinical Research Information Service in the Republic of Korea (KCT0009353).