Lee, Hyun Woo
Kim, Kyungjoo
Lee, Jung-Kyu
Rhee, Chin Kook
Min, Kyung Hoon
Lim, Seong Yong
Kim, Deog Kyeom
Funding for this research was provided by:
Korea Ministry of Environment (2022003310008)
Article History
Received: 2 February 2025
Accepted: 16 July 2025
First Online: 3 October 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study complied with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and received approval from the Institutional Review Board of Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University (SMG-SNU) Boramae Medical Center (IRB no. 07-2024-38). Due to the retrospective design and the use of an anonymized database, the requirement for written informed consent for participation and publication was waived. This waiver was justified as obtaining consent was impracticable, there was no reasonable basis to assume participants would object, and the exemption posed minimal risk to participants.