About the Authors

Amin Daei Sorkhabi

Contributed equally to this work with: Amin Daei Sorkhabi, Asra Fazlollahi, Aila Sarkesh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Asra Fazlollahi

Contributed equally to this work with: Amin Daei Sorkhabi, Asra Fazlollahi, Aila Sarkesh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Aila Sarkesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Amin Daei Sorkhabi, Asra Fazlollahi, Aila Sarkesh

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Reza Aletaha

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

Affiliation Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Hamidreza Feizi

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Seyed Ehsan Mousavi

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neurosciences Research Center, Aging Research Institute, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi

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

Affiliations Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

Mark J. M. Sullman

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Life and Health Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus, Department of Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Ali-Asghar Kolahi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

safiris@tbzmed.ac.ir, saeidsafiri@gmail.com (SS); a.kolahi@sbmu.ac.ir (A-AK)

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

Saeid Safiri

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

safiris@tbzmed.ac.ir, saeidsafiri@gmail.com (SS); a.kolahi@sbmu.ac.ir (A-AK)

Affiliations Clinical Research Development Unit of Tabriz Valiasr Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.