Jo, Yong Suk
Moon, Ji-Yong
Park, Yong Bum
Kim, Yee Hyung
Um, Soo-Jung
Kim, Woo Jin
Yoon, Hyoung Kyu
Yoo, Kwang Ha
Jung, Ki-Suck
Rhee, Chin Kook
Article History
Received: 5 November 2021
Accepted: 28 February 2022
First Online: 16 March 2022
Declarations
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: All of the hospitals involved in the KOCOSS cohort obtained approval from the Institutional Review Board Committee and informed consent from their patients. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of KONKUK university medical center and all participants in the cohorts provided written informed consent (IRB No. KHH1010338). The present study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines.
: Not applicable.
: No, I declare that the authors have no competing interests as defined by BMC, or other interests that might be perceived to influence the results and/or discussion reported in this paper.