The authors thank Bioscience writers for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.
Among the authors, Ji Sun Nam, Jung Eun Lee and I obtained the consent of the patients, enrolled the participants in the study and followed them up. We also prescribed medications by group to randomized patients and monitored side effects. Heejung Kim was an independent researcher who was responsible for the randomization of patients, and supervised the blood and urine tests of the patients so that they could be done without errors. As a statistician, Hye Sun Lee performed statistical tasks such as sample size calculation and statistical analysis of the results. Each author has seen and approved the submission of this version of the manuscript.
