Ebrahimi, Navid
Masrouri, Soroush
Fardoost, Shakiba
Azizi, Fereidoun
Hadaegh, Farzad https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8935-2744
Article History
Received: 4 August 2025
Revised: 20 November 2025
Accepted: 24 November 2025
First Online: 26 January 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declares no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the central institutional review board of the Research Institute of Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. All procedures followed the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants.