About the Authors

Jiesuck Park

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Eue-Keun Choi

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

choiek17@snu.ac.kr

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

Kyung-Do Han

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Bongseong Kim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

You-Jung Choi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

So-Ryoung Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Jeehoon Kang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Myung-Jin Cha

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Kyung Woo Park

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Seil Oh

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Gregory Y. H. Lip

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Chest & Heart Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg Thrombosis Research Unit, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Competing Interests

E-KC has received a Research grant from Bayer, BMS/Pfizer, Biosense Webster, Chong Kun Dang, Daiichi-Sankyo, Samjinpharm, Sanofi-Aventis, Seers Technology, Skylabs, and Yuhan. GYHL is a consultant for Bayer/Janssen, BMS/Pfizer, Medtronic, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Verseon and Daiichi-Sankyo; and speaker for Bayer, BMS/Pfizer, Medtronic, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Daiichi-Sankyo. No fees are directly received personally. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.