About the Authors

Negar Rezaei

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

‡ NR and MS Equal First Author

Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Center (DDRC), Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Maryam Sharafkhah

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ NR and MS Equal First Author

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

Yalda Farahmand

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Terhan University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sadaf G. Sepanlou

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Sahar Dalvand

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Hossein Poustchi

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Alireza Sajadi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sahar Masoudi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Gholamreza Roshandel

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Masoud Khoshnia

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Layli Eslami

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mahboube Akhlaghi

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Alireza Delavari

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

alirezadelavari91@gmail.com, delavari@tums.ac.ir

Affiliations Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.