Gaeini, Zahra
Mirzaei, Sahar
Mirmiran, Parvin
Azizi, Fereidoun
Article History
Received: 18 December 2025
Accepted: 30 January 2026
First Online: 3 February 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. All procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.