Bakhtiari, Ahad
Takian, Amirhossein
Majdzadeh, Reza
Ostovar, Afshin
Afkar, Mehdi
Rostamigooran, Narges
Article History
Received: 23 July 2021
Accepted: 22 August 2022
First Online: 2 September 2022
Declarations
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: This study received ethical approval from the Ethical Committee of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Approval number 9321460002); written informed consent was provided by all participants prior to data collection; all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: AT and AO are members of the INCDC at the MoHME- Iran. AO is Director-General for NCDs at the MoHME. We have no conflict of interest to disclose. AB, RM, MA and NRG declare that they have no competing interests.