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Khalagi, Kazem
Hoveidaei, Amir Human
AziziKia, Hani
Karimi, Amirali
Sattarpour, Reza
Fahimfar, Noushin
Sanjari, Mahnaz
Mansourzadeh, Mohammad Javad
Nabipour, Iraj
Larijani, Bagher
Ostovar, Afshin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8670-5797
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Article History
Received: 16 August 2023
Accepted: 26 June 2024
First Online: 9 July 2024
Declarations
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: The protocol of Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program was approved by both ethics committee of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (code: IR.TUMS.EMRI.REC.1394.0036), and the Research Ethics Committee of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (code of ethics: B-91-14-2). All the included patients gave written informed consent to enter the study. Whenever a patient could not read and write, they were asked to be accompanied by a literate person familiar with the local dialect to provide the patient with necessary explanations. Then, the patient and their companion both signed the informed consent after making sure that they both understood all aspects of the study. Ethics committees approved the aforementioned approach. Both ethics committees approved using the BEH program data for the current study.
: The obtained written informed consent included permissions to use the data for publications in domestic or international journals.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
