About the Authors

Il-Ho Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Il-Ho Park, Joong Seob Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Upper Airway Chronic Inflammatory Disease Laboratory, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Joong Seob Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Il-Ho Park, Joong Seob Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hallym Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang-Si, Korea

Joo-Hoo Park

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Upper Airway Chronic Inflammatory Disease Laboratory, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Sung Hun Kang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea

Seok Min Hong

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Hwaseong-Si, Korea

Il Seok Park

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Hwaseong-Si, Korea

Joo Heung Yoon

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Seok Jin Hong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

enthsj@hanmail.net

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Hwaseong-Si, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.