1 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea.
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
3 Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
4 Division of Kidney Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
5 Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, South Korea.
6 Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea.
7 Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
Received 15 December 2021. Revision received 2 April 2022.
Accepted 17 April 2022.
J.-H.L. and S.K. contributed equally to this work.
This work was supported by a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI15C0001) and supported by the Young Investigator Research Grant from the Korean Society of Nephrology (2021).
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
J.-H.L., S.K., J.P.L., and J.-H.C. were responsible for design the study; Y.H.K., H.K., Y.S.K., H.L., Y.-L.K., C.-D.K., S.-H.P., J.S.L., K.D.Y., H.E.S., J.C.J., and J.L. were responsible for data acquisition; J.-H.L., S.K., and Y.J. were responsible for data analysis/interpretation; J.-H.L. and S.K. made the figures; J.-H.L., S.K., J.P.L., and J.-H.C. drafted and revised the paper; all authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Correspondence: Jang-Hee Cho, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Dongdeok-ro 130, Daegu, 41944, Republic of Korea. ([email protected]); or Jung Pyo Lee, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, 20 Boramae-ro 5-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 07061, Republic of Korea. ([email protected]).
