About the Authors

Meysam Olfatifar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Diseases Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

Mohsen Rajabnia

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran

Amir Sadeghi

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Amirhassan Rabbani

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran

Shabnam Shahrokh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Amin Habibi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Clinical Research Development Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

MehdiSure Pezeshgi Modarres

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Diseases Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

Mohammad Reza Zali

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hamidreza Houri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

hr.houri@sbmu.ac.ir

Affiliation Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors declared no conflict of interest.