About the Authors

Zahra Cheraghi

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Jalal Poorolajal

poorolajal@umsha.ac.ir

Affiliation Research Center for Health Sciences and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Tahereh Hashem

Affiliation Fatemieh Hospital, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Nader Esmailnasab

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Kurdistan, Iran

Amin Doosti Irani

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZC JP ADI. Performed the experiments: ZC JP ADI. Analyzed the data: ZC JP ADI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZC JP ADI. Wrote the paper: ZC JP ADI TH NE.