About the Authors
- Farideh Sadeghian
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Affiliation Department of Occupational Health, Faculty of Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
- Mehdi Raei
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
- Georgia Ntani
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- David Coggon
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* E-mail: dnc@mrc.soton.ac.uk
Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Pincipal investigator for the CUPID study in Iran, identified and recruited the study sample, oversaw data collection, and prepared the first draft of the manuscript: FS. Carried out the initial statistical analysis: MR. Carried out further statistical analysis and helped in revision of the draft manuscript: GN. Conceived and designed the CUPID study, advised on data collection, and revised the draft manuscript: DC. Approved the final manuscript: DC FS MR GN. Conceived and designed the experiments: FS DC. Performed the experiments: FS. Analyzed the data: MR GN. Wrote the paper: FS DC.