Lee, Kyu Rae
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Seo, Mi Hae
Do Han, Kyung
Jung, Jinhyung
Hwang, In Cheol
Article History
Received: 19 December 2017
Revised: 11 July 2018
Accepted: 12 July 2018
First Online: 17 October 2018
<!--Emphasis Type='Bold' removed-->Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Institutional Review Board of Gachon University Gil Medical Center (No. GCIRB2017-277) and of the Korean National Institute for Bioethics Policy (No. P01-201603-21-005) approved the study. The ethic committee waived the requirement for informed participant consent. This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The data were provided by National Health Insurance Sharing Service. These are third party data. We did not have any special access privileges that others would not have. Anyone can submit a research proposal online (ExternalRef removed). If the proposal is accepted by an evaluation committee of NHIC, researcher would access the de-identified NHIC dataset after paying some fee. Permission for the use of health check-up data was granted by the NHIC (NHIS-2018-1-174).
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