About the Authors

Bahareh Gholami

Contributed equally to this work with: Bahareh Gholami, Mohammad-Mahdi Bastan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

‡ These authors share co-first authors on this work.

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

Mohammad-Mahdi Bastan

Contributed equally to this work with: Bahareh Gholami, Mohammad-Mahdi Bastan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

‡ These authors share co-first authors on this work.

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

Samira Gholami

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Maternal and Childhood Obesity Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran

Azar Nejati

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sepehr Khosravi

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Mohammad-Reza Malekpour

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Nazila Rezaei

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

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

Sarvenaz Shahin

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Ali Golestani

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

aligolestani7597@gmail.com

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

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.