About the Authors

Neda Mohammadi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Masoomeh Alimohammadian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Human Ecology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Akbar Feizesani

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Poustchi

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ahad Alizadeh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

Mehdi Yaseri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

M.Yaseri@gmail.com (MY); Mansournia_Ma@yahoo.com (MAM)

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

Mohammad Ali Mansournia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

M.Yaseri@gmail.com (MY); Mansournia_Ma@yahoo.com (MAM)

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

Alireza Sadjadi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, No Way New Way Company, The Hague, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AS is a paid employee of No Way New Way Company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.