Jeon, Junseok
Lim, Yu Jeong
Kim, Bo Yeon
Choi, Ji Young
Do, Jun Young
Lee, Jung Eun
Kang, Seok Hui
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Center Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (2022R1A5A2018865)
Basic Science Research Program through the NRF of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Education (2022R1I1A3072966)
Article History
Received: 11 September 2024
Accepted: 18 June 2025
First Online: 2 July 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was conducted ethically in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of the Yeungnam University Medical Center (approval no. YUMC 2023-12-012).
: Informed consent was not obtained from the patients since the records and information of the participants were anonymized and de-identified before the analysis. The IRB of the Yeungnam University Medical Center also waived the need for obtaining informed consent (approval no. YUMC 2023-12-012).