About the Authors

Arash Bagherian Ghotbi

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

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as the first authors on this work.

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

Benyamin Khoshparast

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as the first authors on this work.

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

Hamidreza Hekmat

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Baharloo Hospital, International Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Shahali

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran

Ali Golestani

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

aligolestani7597@gmail.com (AG); tabatabaeiml@sina.tums.ac.ir (OTM)

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

Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

aligolestani7597@gmail.com (AG); tabatabaeiml@sina.tums.ac.ir (OTM)

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.