About the Authors

Sara Majd Jabbari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

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

Khadije Maajani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

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

Shahin Merat

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Poustchi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sadaf G. Sepanlou

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sepanlou@yahoo.com, sgsepanlou@tums.ac.ir

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.