About the Authors

Marzieh Rostami Dovom

Affiliation Reproductive Endocrinology Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani

ramezani@endocrine.ac.ir

Affiliation Reproductive Endocrinology Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Shirin Djalalinia

Affiliation Non_communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Development of Research Technology Center, Deputy of Research and Technology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Leila Cheraghi

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Samira Behboudi Gandavani

Affiliation Reproductive Endocrinology Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Fereidoun Azizi

Affiliation Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FRT FA. Data curation: FRT MRD LC. Formal analysis: LC. Funding acquisition: FRT FA. Investigation: FRT MRD. Methodology: FRT. Project administration: FRT. Resources: FRT. Software: MRD SBG. Supervision: FRT. Validation: FRT FA. Visualization: FRT MRD. Writing – original draft: MRD SD FRT FA. Writing – review & editing: FRT FA SBG SD.