Okati, Narjes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7646-7203
Ebrahimi-Khusfi, Zohre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1036-6386
Zandifar, Samira
Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ruhollah
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Zabol, Iran (IR-UOZ-GR-2430)
Article History
Received: 6 March 2025
Accepted: 29 April 2025
First Online: 31 May 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Before the collection of hair samples, the objectives and protocol of the research were explained to participants and informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All authors have given their permission to publish this work.