Farhadnejad, Hossein
Ahmadirad, Hamid
Dianati, Zahra
Jahromi, Mitra Kazemi
Saber, Niloufar
Teymoori, Farshad https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2382-5967
Mirmiran, Parvin
Azizi, Fereidoun
Article History
Received: 2 October 2025
Accepted: 16 July 2026
First Online: 21 July 2026
Declaration
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Informed written consent was obtained from all participants. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants adhered to 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 study protocol was approved by the research council of the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.