Mi-Ae Kim: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Writing – original draft
Jae Seok Park: Role: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Choong Won Lee: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review &
editing
Won-Il Choi:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7705-0098
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Oliver Schildgen: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
6
March
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0210102
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, Daegu, Republic
of Korea
[2
]
Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Sungso Hospital, Andong, Republic
of Korea
Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210102
PMC ID: 6402623
PubMed ID: 30840626
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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded
by the Korean Government (MSIP) (No. 2014R1A5A2010008). The funders had no role in
study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of
the manuscript.
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