About the Authors

Nima Fattahi

Contributed equally to this work with: Nima Fattahi, Negar Rezaei

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Negar Rezaei

Contributed equally to this work with: Nima Fattahi, Negar Rezaei

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohsen Asadi-Lari

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Oncopathology Research Centre, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Moein Yousefi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Madadi

Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Kimiya Gohari

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Ali Sheidaei

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Esmaeil Mohammadi

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nazila Rezaei

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mahboubeh Parsaeian

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farzad Kompani

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Medical Center, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farshad Farzadfar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

f-farzadfar@tums.ac.ir

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.