About the Authors

Rosa Haghshenas

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Haghshenas, Zahra Soleimani

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Soleimani

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa Haghshenas, Zahra Soleimani

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Center for Air Pollution Research (CAPR), Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran,

Yosef Farzi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Amirmohammad Khalaji

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Amir Hossein Behnoush

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ali Taherkhani

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran

Ashkan Pourabhari Langroudi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Shahedeh Seyfi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nasim Hadian

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammadhassan Momayyezi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Environmental Health Expert, Provincial Health Center, Shahid Sadougi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

Samaneh Mozafari

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Environmental Health Expert, Provincial Health Center, Shahid Sadougi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

Samaneh Abolli

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center for Air Pollution Research (CAPR), Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran

Kazem Naddafi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Air Pollution Research (CAPR), Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran

Masud Yunesian

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran, Department of Research Methodology and Data Analysis, Institute for Environmental Research (IER), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Mesdaghinia

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

mesdaghinia@tums.ac.ir

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran, Center for Water Quality Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farshad Farzadfar

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

FF also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

No authors have competing interests Enter: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.