Jin, Heejin
Kim, Ye An
Lee, Young
Kwon, Seung-hyun
Do, Ah Ra
Seo, Sujin
Won, Sungho
Seo, Je Hyun http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3127-7160
Funding for this research was provided by:
Veterans Health Service Medical Center (VHSMC20035)
National Research Foundation of Korea (No. 2022R1C1C1002929)
Article History
Received: 11 July 2022
Accepted: 28 December 2022
First Online: 11 January 2023
Declarations
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: The institutional review board of the Veterans Health Service Medical Center approved the study protocol for VHSMC cohorts after obtaining informed consent (IRB No.2018-08-032 and IRB No. 2020-02-031). The IRB approved the protocol for the KoGES consortium (IRB No. 2021-05-007) after waiving the need for informed consent since this was a retrospective study and anonymized and de-identified. Informed consent of the participants in the primary KoGES consortium had been obtained.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.