About the Authors

Amirhossein Yadegar

Contributed equally to this work with: Amirhossein Yadegar, Fatemeh Mohammadi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Fatemeh Mohammadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Amirhossein Yadegar, Fatemeh Mohammadi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Soghra Rabizadeh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Alipasha Meysamie

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Cardiac Primary Prevention Research Center (CPPRC), Cardiovascular Diseases Research Institute (CVDRI), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Seyed Ali Nabipoorashrafi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Seyed Arsalan Seyedi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Esteghamati

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Manouchehr Nakhjavani

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

nakhjavanim@tums.ac.ir

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC), Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.