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Article History

Received: 22 January 2020

Accepted: 17 February 2021

First Online: 23 February 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study has been approved by the ethics committee of The Endocrine Research Institute (IR.SBMU.ENDOCRINE.REC.1396.550), and written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with 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. The Medical Ethics Committee of the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences granted permission to our team to access the clinical/personal patient data used in our research.

: This manuscript does not report personal data such as individual details, images or videos; therefore, consent for publication is not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.