Yoo, Jae Yeong
Cho, Myeon Kyu
Bae, Eunjin
Hyun, Young Youl
Chung, Sungjin
Kwon, Soon Hyo
Cho, Jang-Hee
Yoo, Kyung Don
Park, Woo Yeong
Sun, In O.
Yu, Byung Chul
Ko, Gang-Jee
Yang, Jae Won
Hwang, Won Min
Song, Sang Heon
Shin, Sung Joon
Hong, Yu Ah
Yoon, Jong-Woo
Kim, Hyunsuk
Funding for this research was provided by:
Korean Society of Nephrology (Cooperative Research Grant 2019)
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF- 2021R1I1A3057140)
Hallym University (Mighty Hallym 4.0 vision, 2025)
Article History
Received: 7 August 2025
Accepted: 30 March 2026
First Online: 20 April 2026
Declarations
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: This multicenter retrospective cohort study was approved by the institutional review boards of all participating institutions, with a waiver of informed consent due to the retrospective nature of the study and the use of de-identified clinical data. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital of Hallym Medical University Center (IRB No. 2019-12-008) and by the IRBs of all other participating institutions, with a waiver of informed consent. Detailed IRB information for each participating center has been previously published [ ].
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.