Epidemiological Characterization of a Directed and Weighted Disease Network Using Data From a Cohort of One Million Patients: Network Analysis

Kyungmin Ko   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Chae Won Lee   ^{1, 3 *} , BSc ;   Sangmin Nam   ^{4 *} , MD, PhD ;   Song Vogue Ahn   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Jung Ho Bae   ⁶ , MD ;   Chi Yong Ban   ^{1, 3} , BA ;   Jongman Yoo   ^{3, 7} , MD, PhD ;   Jungmin Park   ⁸ , PhD ;   Hyun Wook Han   ^{1, 3} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, CHA University of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

² Department of Pathology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, WA, United States

³ Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

⁵ Department of Health Convergence, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Healthcare Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁷ Department of Microbiology, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

⁸ Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally