Farhadnejad, Hossein
Teymoori, Farshad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2382-5967
Mokhtari, Ebrahim
Mirmiran, Parvin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2391-4924
Azizi, Fereidoun
Article History
Received: 3 August 2021
Revised: 29 March 2022
Accepted: 4 April 2022
First Online: 20 April 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study protocol was approved by the ethics research committee of the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.