Zilaee, Marzie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9895-8887
Hosseini, Seyed Ahmad
Jafarirad, Sima
Abolnezhadian, Farhad
Cheraghian, Bahman
Namjoyan, Foroogh
Ghadiri, Ataollah
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (1395.810.AJUMS.REC.IR)
Article History
Received: 31 December 2018
Accepted: 4 February 2019
First Online: 22 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (Registration No. 1395.810.AJUMS.REC.IR). All subjects signed the written informed consent to participate in the study. The trial was registered at Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials in 2016 (URL: ) (IRCT2017012132081N2).
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