About the Authors

Saba Alvand

Contributed equally to this work with: Saba Alvand, Sudabeh Alatab

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

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

Sudabeh Alatab

Contributed equally to this work with: Saba Alvand, Sudabeh Alatab

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

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

Sahar Dalvand

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

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

Fariba Shahraki-Sanavi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Mahmoud Ali Kaykhaei

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genetics of Non-Communicable Disease Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Elham Shahraki

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Erfaneh Barar

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Sadaf G. Sepanlou

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

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

Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ansarialireza@yahoo.com

Affiliation Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Science, Zahedan, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.