The predictive role of circulating telomerase and vitamin D for long-term survival in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG)

• Mahtab Zarei,

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

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Nutrition, Faculty of Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mahdi Najafi ,

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

  * E-mail: mahdi.najafi@uwo.ca, najafik@sina.tums.ac.ir

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anesthesiology, Tehran Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1044-8963

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• Elnaz Movahedi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Nutrition, Faculty of Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohamad Hassan Javanbakht,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Nutrition, Faculty of Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Yun-Hee Choi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Mehdi Yaseri,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4066-873X

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• Arash Shirvani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Diabetes, Vitamin D, Skin and Bone Research Laboratory, Boston University Medical Campus, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Frank W. Sellke,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Saverio Stranges

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg

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