About the Authors

Shadi Rahimzadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

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

Beata Burczynska

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Alireza Ahmadvand

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Ali Sheidaei

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Sara Khademioureh

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ECO College of Insurance, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

Forough Pazhuheian

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

James Bentham

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Farshad Farzadfar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, 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

Mariachiara Di Cesare

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

C.Dicesare@mdx.ac.uk

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.