About the Authors

Marzieh Rohani-Rasaf

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran

Kosar Mirjalili

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran

Akram Vatannejad

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

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Iran

Maryam Teimouri

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Teimouri.m@shmu.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Allied Medical Science, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist