About the Authors

Fahimeh Haghighatdoost

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

‡ HF and MA contributed equally and are both first author on this work.

Affiliation Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Atena Mahdavi

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ HF and MA contributed equally and are both first author on this work.

Affiliation Food Security Research Center and Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Science, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Noushin Mohammadifard

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

nmohammadifard@gmail.com

Affiliation Interventional Cardiology Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Razieh Hassannejad

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Hypertension Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Farid Najafi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Research Center for Environmental determinants of Health, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Hossein Farshidi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Hormozgan Cardiovascular Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandarabbas, Iran

Masoud Lotfizadeh

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran

Tooba Kazemi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran

Simin Karimi

Roles Software

Affiliation Heart Failure Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Hamidreza Roohafza

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Cardiac Rehabilitation Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Erika Aparecida Silveira

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

Nizal Sarrafzadegan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Cesar de Oliveira

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.