About the Authors

Soo Yeon Jung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ SYJ and MK contributed equally to the paper as first co-authors. EHH and HSK also contributed equally to the paper as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Min-ho Kim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

‡ SYJ and MK contributed equally to the paper as first co-authors. EHH and HSK also contributed equally to the paper as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

So Jeong Lee

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Eun Hee Ha

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

sevent@ewha.ac.kr (HSK); eunheeha@ewha.ac.kr (EHH)

‡ SYJ and MK contributed equally to the paper as first co-authors. EHH and HSK also contributed equally to the paper as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Han Su Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

sevent@ewha.ac.kr (HSK); eunheeha@ewha.ac.kr (EHH)

‡ SYJ and MK contributed equally to the paper as first co-authors. EHH and HSK also contributed equally to the paper as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.