About the Authors

Mahdieh Nazari-Robati

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Tania Dehesh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Beydolah Shahouzehi

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Institute of Basic and Clinical Physiology Sciences, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Gholamreza Roshandel

Roles Methodology

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

Hossein Poustchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Hossein Poustchi, Solaleh Emamgholipour

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

h.poustchi@gmail.com (HP); semamgholipour@sina.tums.ac.ir (SE)

Affiliation Liver and Pancreaticobiliary Disease Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Solaleh Emamgholipour

Contributed equally to this work with: Hossein Poustchi, Solaleh Emamgholipour

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

h.poustchi@gmail.com (HP); semamgholipour@sina.tums.ac.ir (SE)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.