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Article History

Received: 25 January 2021

Accepted: 2 July 2021

First Online: 27 July 2021

Declarations

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: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of both Bushehr University of Medical Sciences and Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute associated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences. After an explanation of the study objectives and protocols, written informed consent was obtained from all of the individual participants included in this study. All of the procedures performed in the primary study involving human participants and in the present study involving human data were following the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.