About the Authors

Ehsan Rezaei-Darzi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Centre, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Parinaz Mehdipour

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Centre, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Mariachiara Di Cesare

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University London, London, United Kingdom

Farshad Farzadfar

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Shadi Rahimzadeh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University London, London, United Kingdom

Lisa Nissen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Alireza Ahmadvand

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.ahmadvand@griffith.edu.au

Affiliation School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.