About the Authors

Ali Seifi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

seifi@uthscsa.edu

Affiliation University of Texas Health at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Alireza Mirahmadizadeh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Vahid Eslami

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.