Kim, Sungroul
Gurmu, Birhan Legese
Kim, Mingi
Song, Chiyou
Lee, Mee-Ri
Lim, Chris Chaeha
Rule, Ana M.
Yang, Kwang Ik
Article History
Received: 1 November 2024
Accepted: 27 February 2025
First Online: 7 April 2025
Declarations
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: The KNHANES was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, which confirmed the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, revised in 2000. The study protocol was exempt from the research ethics review process of the Soonchunhyang University Research Ethics Review Committee. Ethical approval for this study was waived by the IRB of Soonchunhyang University in accordance with the waiver reason “research using information open to the general public” (no. SCH-2024-08-002). All participants provided written informed consent before participating in the KNHANES. The identities of all respondents remained anonymous even though the dataset was public.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.