About the Authors

Jung-Hwan Cho

Roles Writing – original draft

‡ JHC and EJR contributed equally to this work as first authors.

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Eun-Jung Rhee

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ JHC and EJR contributed equally to this work as first authors.

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Se Eun Park

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hyemi Kwon

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jin-Hyung Jung

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, Catholic University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Kyung-Do Han

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, Catholic University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yong-Gyu Park

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, Catholic University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Soon-Jib Yoo

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Republic of Korea

Yang-Hyun Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang-Hyun Kim, Won-Young Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

drlwy@hanmail.net (WYL); mrchir@naver.com (YHK)

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Korea University Hospital, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Won-Young Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Yang-Hyun Kim, Won-Young Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

drlwy@hanmail.net (WYL); mrchir@naver.com (YHK)

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Taskforce Team of the Obesity Fact Sheet of the Korean Society for the Study of Obesity

The complete membership of the group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.