Decreased lung function is associated with elevated ferritin but not iron or transferrin saturation in 42,927 healthy Korean men: A cross-sectional study

• Jonghoo Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonghoo Lee, Hye kyeong Park

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Jeju National University Hospital, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Republic of Korea

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• Hye kyeong Park ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonghoo Lee, Hye kyeong Park

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Ilsan, Republic of Korea

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• Min-Jung Kwon,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Soo-Youn Ham,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Joon Mo Kim,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Si-Young Lim,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Jae-Uk Song

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

  * E-mail: khfever76@gmail.com

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-7037

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