Mirrafiei, Amin
Hasanzadeh, Mohaddeseh
Sheikhhossein, Fatemeh
Majdi¹, Maryam
Djafarian, Kurosh
Shab-Bidar, Sakineh
Funding for this research was provided by:
Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services (40186)
Article History
Received: 21 June 2022
Accepted: 14 March 2023
First Online: 21 March 2023
Declarations
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: The sample collection was made possible by the coordination of the Health Bureau of the Municipality of Tehran and the cooperation of the health care centers of Tehran. This study was supervised according to the guidelines rendered in the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the ethical committee of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Ethics No. IR.TUMS.VCR.REC.1398.429). Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects.
: SS-B and KDJ conceived and designed the study, MM prepared the data. AM, SS-B and MH performed the analyses. AM, MH and FS wrote the first draft of the manuscript, SS-B and KDJ critically revised the manuscript, KDJ received financial support for undertaking this study, and all authors have read and approved the final manuscript. SS-B in the guarantor.