About the Authors

Mahnaz Sanjari

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Hossein Yarmohammadi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Osteoporosis Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Medical Students Research Committee, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany

Mohammad Amin Habibi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Clinical Research Development Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

Aida Fallahzadeh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Amir Hossein Behnoush

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Shakiba Yousefi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Ali Sheikhy

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Sima Noorali

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Zahra Esfahani

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Narges Ebrahimi

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Noushin Fahimfar

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Afshin Ostovar

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Bagher Larijani

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

emrc@tums.ac.ir

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.