Lee, Kyu-Ho
Hwang, Soon Young
Heo, Ji Hye
Kang, Jun Goo
Kim, Miji
Won, Chang Won
Choi, Kyung Mook
Roh, Eun
Funding for this research was provided by:
Korea Health Industry Development Institute (HI15C3153)
National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2024-00351464)
Article History
Received: 19 August 2025
Accepted: 29 January 2026
First Online: 4 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Kyung Hee University Medical Center (IRB number: 2015-12-103) and Korea University Guro Hospital (IRB number: 2022GR0055), and informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their study inclusion.