Mahdavi, Maryam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8371-0694
Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-9635
Asosheh, Abbas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-8238
Khalili, Davood https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-1039
Hosseinpour, Kamyab
Tajari, Ahmadreza
Article History
Received: 27 April 2025
Accepted: 29 October 2025
First Online: 7 November 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Data for this investigation were acquired from the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS), which was conducted by the Endocrine Research Center at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The authors are grateful to the study participants and all those who contributed to the design and data acquisition of the TLGS. The project was authorized by the Ethics Committee of Tarbiat Modares University under the code IR.MODARES.REC.1403.100.
: Following the ethical guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration, this study was conducted; all procedures comprising human subjects were approved by the Human Research Review Committee of the Endocrine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Every subject provided written informed consent.