About the Authors

Parnian Shobeiri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Medicine, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran, Non–Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Amirali Karimi

Contributed equally to this work with: Amirali Karimi, Sara Momtazmanesh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

Sara Momtazmanesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Amirali Karimi, Sara Momtazmanesh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Medicine, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran, Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Antônio L. Teixeira

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatry Program, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Charlotte E. Teunissen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Neurochemistry Laboratory, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Vrije Universiteit, Boelelaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Erwin E. H. van Wegen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Location VUmc, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mark A. Hirsch

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Carolinas Medical Center, Carolinas Rehabilitation, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Mir Saeed Yekaninejad

Roles Writing – review & editing

yekaninejad@yahoo.com (MSY); rezaei_nima@yahoo.com (NR)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nima Rezaei

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yekaninejad@yahoo.com (MSY); rezaei_nima@yahoo.com (NR)

Affiliations Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare.