Associations between spice or pepper (Capsicum annuum) consumption and diabetes or metabolic syndrome incidence

• Azam Ildarabadi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Azam Ildarabadi, Firoozeh Hosseini-Esfahani

  Roles Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Nutrition and Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Firoozeh Hosseini-Esfahani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Azam Ildarabadi, Firoozeh Hosseini-Esfahani

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parvin.mirmiran@sbmu.ac.ir, Parvin.mirmiran@gmail.com (PM); f.hosseini@sbmu.ac.ir (FHE)

  Affiliation Nutrition and Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-0081

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• Shahrzad Daei,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Nutrition and Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Parvin Mirmiran ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parvin.mirmiran@sbmu.ac.ir, Parvin.mirmiran@gmail.com (PM); f.hosseini@sbmu.ac.ir (FHE)

  Affiliations Nutrition and Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Fereidoun Azizi

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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