About the Authors

Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ MAK and NA share co-first author on this work.

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

Naser Ahmadi

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

‡ MAK and NA share co-first author on this work.

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

Nima Fattahi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, 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 Conceptualization, 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

Mohammad-Reza Malekpour

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari

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

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

Sina Azadnajafabad

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Zahra Esfahani

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, Department of Biostatistics, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ali-Asghar Kolahi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Shahin Roshani

Roles 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, The Netherlands Cancer Institute(NKI), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sahba Rezazadeh-Khadem

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Fateme Gorgani

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Seyyed Nima Naleini

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran

Shohreh Naderimagham

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Bagher Larijani

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

f-farzadfar@tums.ac.ir

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.