Jang, Hye-Mi
Chang, Yoosoo
Ryu, Seungho
Lee, Da-eun
Park, Yi Seul
Kim, Young Jin
Kim, Kyeezu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9094-9011
Funding for this research was provided by:
Korea National Institute of Health (2024-NI-005-01)
National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2024-00333941)
Article History
Received: 24 March 2026
Accepted: 3 September 2026
First Online: 9 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The KoGES study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, and the present study received additional approval from the IRB of Sungkyunkwan University (IRB No. SKKU-06-029).
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.