Salehifar, Ebrahim http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8162-6950
Janbabaei, Ghasem http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2651-6200
Hendouei, Narjes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4021-1393
Alipour, Abbas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0781-3728
Tabrizi, Nasim http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7978-2014
Avan, Razieh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6412-5596
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Article History
First Online: 10 January 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors acknowledge the kind assistance and financial support provided by Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (Proposal ID: 1897–20/05/94).
: Authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The study was approved by ethics committee of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (IR.MAZUMS.REC.94-1897). The study was submitted, evaluated and approved by the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT201602112027N5). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Written informed consent was obtained from each patient prior to study enrolment.