About the Authors

Sedighe Esmaeilzadeh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Infertility and Reproductive Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Fatemeh Habibolahi

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

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

David Moher

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Zahra Basirat

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infertility and Reproductive Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Hemat Gholinia

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Infertility and Reproductive Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Masoumeh Golsorkhtabaramiri

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Infertility and Reproductive Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Parvaneh Mirabi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

parvaneh.mirabi@gmail.com

Affiliation Infertility and Reproductive Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.