About the Authors

Jalal Poorolajal

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran, Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran, Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Fatemeh Zeraati

Affiliation Medicinal Plants and Natural Products Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Ali Reza Soltanian

Affiliations Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Vida Sheikh

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Elham Hooshmand

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran

Akram Maleki

arak.maleki@gmail.com

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JP AM FZ ARS VS. Data curation: JP AM EH. Formal analysis: JP AM EH. Funding acquisition: JP AM FZ ARS VS. Investigation: JP AM. Methodology: JP AM. Project administration: JP AM EH. Resources: JP AM. Software: JP AM. Supervision: JP AM FZ ARS VS EH. Validation: JP AM. Visualization: JP AM. Writing – original draft: JP AM FZ ARS VS EH. Writing – review & editing: JP AM FZ ARS VS.