Najd-Hassan-Bonab, Leila https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8295-434X
Safarpour, Mahdi
Moazzam-Jazi, Maryam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1525-8672
Azizi, Fereidoun
Daneshpour, Maryam S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2208-6568
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (97083)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2022
Accepted: 3 November 2022
First Online: 25 November 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research reported.
: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the RIES, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Tehran, Iran), and recognizes the scientific support of deCODE (Reykjavik, Iceland). All procedures performed in this study were run following the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and in agreement with the Helsinki Declaration (World Medical Association, 2001) and its later amendments. An ethics statement was not required since the research is a systemic review and meta-analysis of previously published studies.
: Since this study is a secondary study, informed consent is not applicable.
: The publication of this study has been approved by all co-authors and the responsible authorities at the institute.