Yoo, Keunjoong
Park, Yong Soon
Kim, Hye Jin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hallym University Research Fund 2024 (HURF-2024-63)
Article History
Received: 28 March 2025
Accepted: 27 June 2025
First Online: 14 August 2025
Declarations
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: The KNHANES data were collected with informed consent from all participants under the approval of the KCDC (now KDCA). This study was approved with an exemption from the Institutional Review Board of Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital (CHUNCHEON 2024-11-003). All procedures involving human participants were conducted 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.
: Not applicable. This study used publicly available, de-identified data.
: The authors declare no competing interests.