About the Authors

Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi

Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi, Shahin Roshani

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

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

Shahin Roshani

Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi, Shahin Roshani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

Esmaeil Mohammadi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

Moein Yoosefi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Negar Rezaei

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, 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

Zahra Esfahani

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Biostatistics, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sina Azadnajafabad

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Naser Ahmadi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Sarvenaz Shahin

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ameneh Kazemi

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, 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

Alireza Namazi Shabestari

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ardeshir Khosravi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Ali H. Mokdad

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

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Bagher Larijani

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

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farshad Farzadfar

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

f-farzadfar@tums.ac.ir, farzadfar3@yahoo.com

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.