Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Sunggoo Kwon from Coreline Soft, Co.Ltd., for the technical support. Minju Kim (Department of Medical Statistics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine) kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript.
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