Bahadoran, Zahra
Carlström, Mattias
Ghasemi, Asghar
Mirmiran, Parvin
Azizi, Fereidoun
Hadaegh, Farzad
Article History
Received: 18 October 2017
Accepted: 13 February 2018
First Online: 27 February 2018
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: Written informed consents were obtained from all participants. The ethics research council of the Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran approved the study protocol.
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