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Jung-Hyun Kim, MD1,2; Solmi Kim, MS1; So-Young Park, MD, PhD1,3; Hyo-Jung Kim, MD1,4; Jin An, MD1,5; Hyouk-Soo Kwon, MD, PhD1; Woo-Jung Song, MD, PhD1; You-Sook Cho, MD, PhD1; Hee-Bom Moon, MD, PhD1; Jin-Ah Park, PhD6; and Tae-Bum Kim, MD, PhD1*
1Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Internal Medicine, Korean Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Seongnam, Korea
3Department of Internal Medicine, Kunkuck University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
4Department of Internal Medicine, Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea
5 Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
6Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Corresponding author: Tae-Bum Kim, MD, PhD, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88, Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea. Tel: +82-2-3010-3280; Fax: +82-2-3010-6969; Email: tbkim@amc.seoul.kr