About the Authors
- Hye Won Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hye Won Kim, Yang-Hyun Kim
Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- Yang-Hyun Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hye Won Kim, Yang-Hyun Kim
Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- Kyungdo Han
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea
- Ga Eun Nam
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- Gwang Seon Kim
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- Byoung-Duck Han
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
- Anna Lee
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Affiliation Department of East Asian Languages, College of Language, Linguistic, and Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Ji Yong Ahn
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* E-mail: ji110@hanmail.net (JYA); basslove1@hanmail.net (BJK)
¶JYA and BJK also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Byung Joon Ko
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* E-mail: ji110@hanmail.net (JYA); basslove1@hanmail.net (BJK)
¶JYA and BJK also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HWK YHK JYA BJK. Analyzed the data: BJK KH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: HWK YHK JYA BJK KH GEN GSK BDH AL. Collected data: GEN GSK BDH. Provided critical revision of the manuscript and contributed to the discussion: AL.