About the Authors

Bahram Moazzami

Affiliation Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Shahla Chaichian

shchaichian@gmail.com

Affiliation Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Amir Kasaeian

Affiliations Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Shirin Djalalinia

Affiliations Development of Research and Technology Center, Deputy of Research and Technology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Meisam Akhlaghdoust

Affiliation Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Masoud Eslami

Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Behrooz Broumand

Affiliation Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.