About the Authors

Hedyeh Ebrahimi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

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

Farhad Pishgar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

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

Moein Yoosefi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sedighe Moradi

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

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

Nazila Rezaei

Roles Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Shirin Djalalinia

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Deputy of Research and Technology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Mitra Modirian

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Niloofar Peykari

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Shohreh Naderimagham

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Rosa Haghshenas

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Saral Rahimi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pharmaceutical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Hamidreza Jamshidi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Esteghamati

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Vali-Asr Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Bagher Larijani

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Farshad Farzadfar

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

F-Farzadfar@tums.ac.ir, Farzadfar3@yahoo.com

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.