Kim, Hyo Jin
Kang, Eunjeong
Oh, Yun Kyu
Kim, Yeong Hoon
Han, Seung Hyeok
Yoo, Tae Hyun
Chae, Dong-Wan
Lee, Joongyub
Ahn, Curie
Oh, Kook-Hwan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9525-2179
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2011E3300300, 2012E3301100, 2013E3301600, 2013E3301601, 2013E3301602, and 2016E3300200)
Article History
Received: 2 September 2017
Accepted: 20 February 2018
First Online: 5 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the ethical committee of each participating clinical center, including the Institutional Review Boards of Seoul National University Hospital, Severance Hospital, Kangbuk Samsung Medical Center, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Gil Hospital, Eulji General Hospital, Chonnam National University Hospital, and Busan Paik Hospital. All participating patients provided written informed consent. The study protocol was in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
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