Khalagi, Kazem http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0890-6232
Ansarifar, Akram
Fahimfar, Noushin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-9794
Sanjari, Mahnaz http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2992-6184
Gharibzdeh, Safoora http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4535-4040
Sharifi, Farshad
Shafiee, Gita
Heshmat, Ramin
Nabipour, Iraj
Larijani, Bagher http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5386-7597
Ostovar, Afshin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8670-5797
Article History
Received: 4 August 2020
Accepted: 1 March 2021
First Online: 9 March 2021
Declarations
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: The Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Science (code of ethics: IR.TUMS.EMRI.REC.1394.0036) as well as the Research Ethics Committee of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (code of ethics: B-91-14-2). Written informed consent was signed by all the participants before enrolment in the study. In case that the participant was not able to read and write, s/he was asked to be accompanied by a literate person to provide him/her necessary explanations in the local dialect, and then the informed consent was signed by both the participants and the companion after making sure that all aspects of the study were understood. This issue had been approved by the ethics committees. Both ethics committees approved obtaining data analyzed for the objectives of the present study from the participants.
: The Informed consent obtained from the participants included the consent for publication of analyzed data as scientific articles in domestic and international journals.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.