Akbari, Mohammadreza
Poustchi, Hossein
Taherifard, Erfan
Mehrian, Seyed Reza Abdipour
Rahimian, Zahra
Mesgarpour, Bita
Pourfarzi, Farhad
Gharekhani, Afshin
Nejatizadeh, Azim
Moradpour, Farhad
Piraie, Elahe
Fakhraei, Bahareh
Joukar, Farahnaz
Saki, Nader
Safarpour, Ali Reza
Moradinazar, Mehdi
Rezaianzadeh, Abbas
Tafaghodi, Mohsen
Esmaeili-Nadimi, Ali
Moslem, Alireza
Alijanvand, Moluk Hadi
Moosazadeh, Mahmood
Mehrparvar, Amir Houshang
Ansari-Moghaddam, Alireza
Taherifard, Ehsan
Ghahramani, SaharNaz
Pakroo, Mahsa
Mohammadi, Zahra
Malekzadeh, Reza
Vardanjani, Hossein Molavi
Article History
Received: 24 January 2025
Accepted: 6 May 2025
First Online: 19 May 2025
Declarations
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: The design of the PERSIAN cohort study was approved by the ethics committees of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the Digestive Diseases Research Institute (IR.TUMS.DDRI.REC.1396.1). While each cohort center received ethical approval from local universities, for the purpose of this study and pooling all PERSIAN data, the ethics committee of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences approved the study (IR.SUMS.REC.1402.594). Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their enrollment in the PERSIAN cohort study, and all study procedures were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.