About the Authors

Hyun-Jung Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Hyung-Kwan Kim

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cardiman73@gmail.com (HKK); chrislee.echo@gmail.com (SCL)

‡ HKK and SCL equally contributed to this work as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sang Chol Lee

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cardiman73@gmail.com (HKK); chrislee.echo@gmail.com (SCL)

‡ HKK and SCL equally contributed to this work as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Steve R. Ommen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jihoon Kim

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jun-Bean Park

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

You-Jung Choi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Seung-Pyo Lee

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sung-A. Chang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yong-Jin Kim

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

HKK reports research grants from Johnson-Johnson, Handok, Dae-Woong, Hanmi, Ildong, Samjin, and JW pharmaceutical. The remaining authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors have nothing to disclose.