About the Authors

Shervin Mossavarali

Contributed equally to this work with: Shervin Mossavarali, Shahrzad Mohseni

Roles Writing – original draft

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

Shahrzad Mohseni

Contributed equally to this work with: Shervin Mossavarali, Shahrzad Mohseni

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Noushin Fahimfar

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Osteoporosis Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Negar Asaad Sajadi

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mahnaz Pejman Sani

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

mpsani@sina.tums.ac.ir (MPS), kkhalagi@yahoo.com (KK)

‡ These authors contributed as correspondence authors.

Affiliations Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Endocrinology, Shariati Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farshad Sharifi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Elderly Health Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammadreza Mohajeri-Tehrani

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Bagher Larijani

Roles Project administration

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

Kazem Khalagi

Roles Methodology, Validation

mpsani@sina.tums.ac.ir (MPS), kkhalagi@yahoo.com (KK)

‡ These authors contributed as correspondence authors.

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

Iraj Nabipour

Roles Project administration

Affiliation The Persian Gulf Marine Biotechnology Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.