About the Authors

Eu Jeong Ku

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Kyong Yeon Jung

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Yoon Ji Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Kyoung Min Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Jae Hoon Moon

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Sung Hee Choi

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Young Min Cho

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Kyong Soo Park

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hak Chul Jang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Soo Lim

limsoo@snu.ac.kr

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Bo Ahrén

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

B.A. has consulted for and/or received lecture fees from Novartis A/S, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Sanofi, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb/AstraZeneca, Takeda, and Novo Nordisk. Y.M.C. received a lecture fee or consultation fee from MSD, Lilly, Novartis, AstraZeneca, and Boehringer Ingelheim. Other authors have no conflicts of interests to disclose. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL EJK. Performed the experiments: SL EJK. Analyzed the data: SL EJK. Wrote the paper: EJK SL. Contributed to the review and interpretation of results: EJK KYJ YJK KMK JHM SHC YMC KSP HCJ BA SL.