About the Authors

Seyed Mohammad-Navid Ataei

Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Mohammad-Navid Ataei, Ali Sheidaei

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

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

Ali Sheidaei

Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Mohammad-Navid Ataei, Ali Sheidaei

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

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

Ali Golestani

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Sepehr Khosravi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

tabatabaeiml@sina.tums.ac.ir

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

Rosa Haghshenas

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Kazem Khalagi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Obesity and Eating Habits Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Osteoporosis Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Bagher Larijani

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation 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.