About the Authors

Koushan Hajiuni

Roles Writing – original draft

‡ KH and SS are co-first authors on this work. KH, SS, SA and NR contributed equally to this work.

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

Sarmad Salehi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ KH and SS are co-first authors on this work. KH, SS, SA and NR contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Rajabli

Roles Writing – original draft

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

Sina Azadnajafabad

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Samaneh Akbarpour

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Sleep Breathing Disorders Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Samaneh Asgari

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

nazila_r@yahoo.com (NR); asgari.samaneh@gmail.com (SA)

‡ KH and SS are co-first authors on this work. KH, SS, SA and NR contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Prevention of Metabolic Disorders Research Center, Research Institute for Metabolic and Obesity Disorders, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nazila Rezaei

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

nazila_r@yahoo.com (NR); asgari.samaneh@gmail.com (SA)

‡ KH and SS are co-first authors on this work. KH, SS, SA and NR contributed equally to this work.

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.