Sarahian, Nahid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7915-7355
Noroozzadeh, Mahsa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4561-8472
Saei Ghare Naz, Marzieh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1259-2459
Eskandari-Roozbahani, Narges https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2509-9177
Mahboobifard, Fatemeh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0259-0994
Ramezani Tehrani, Fahimeh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4621-7972
Article History
Received: 9 July 2021
Accepted: 1 October 2021
First Online: 15 October 2021
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: Unethical issues (including plagiarism, informed consent, misconduct, data fabrication, and/or forgery, duplication and/or submission, redundancy, etc.) have been investigated by the authors. Procedures adopted in this study have been approved by the local ethics committee and are according to the Declaration of Helsinki principles. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Research Institute of Endocrine Sciences Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
: Not applicable.