About the Authors

Sina Golestani

Roles Writing – original draft

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

Mohammad Taghi Talebian

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sina Hosspital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ali Golestani

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Zeinab Ahadi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Ziba Aghsaei Fard

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abdolreza Mohammadi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Urology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Bagher Larijani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

mkaghamir@tums.ac.ir

Affiliation Urology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.