About the Authors

Chang Hee Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang Hee Jung, You-Cheol Hwang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

You-Cheol Hwang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chang Hee Jung, You-Cheol Hwang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Kwang Joon Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, University of Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Bong Soo Cha

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, University of Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Cheol-Young Park

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

Won Seon Jeon

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

Jae Hyeon Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sang-Man Jin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sang Youl Rhee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jeong-taek Woo

jtwoomd@khmc.or.kr (JW); bwanlee@yuhs.ac (BWL)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Byung-Wan Lee

jtwoomd@khmc.or.kr (JW); bwanlee@yuhs.ac (BWL)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, University of Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHJ Y-CH JW B-WL. Performed the experiments: CHJ Y-CH KJK WSJ S-MJ SYR B-WL. Analyzed the data: CHJ Y-CH B-WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSC C-YP JHK. Wrote the paper: CHJ Y-CH B-WL.