Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine (Drs Ahn, Choe, Shin, Park, Lee, Oh, Choi, Lee, Cha, Hong); Biomedical Research Institute (Dr Ahn), Pusan National University Hospital; Department of Statistics, Pukyong National University (Dr Uhm); Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University (Dr Won), Busan; Department of Statistics and Institute of Statistics, Hallym University, Chuncheon (Dr Han); and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul (Dr Kim), Republic of Korea.
Address correspondence to: Young-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea University Medical Center, 73 Inchon-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea ([email protected]).
JA and TU have contributed equally as first authors.
Source of Funding: Bumsuk Academic Research Fund in 2016 (2016-6, Daejeon, Republic of Korea); and a Clinical Research Grant from Pusan National University Hospital in 2018 (Busan, Republic of Korea).
Ahn, Uhm, Han, Won, Choe, Shin, Park, Lee, Oh, Choi, Lee, Cha, Hong, and Kim have no relationships/conditions/circumstances that present potential conflict of interest.
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