Fathi, Maryam
Heshmat, Ramin
Ebrahimi, Mehdi
Salimzadeh, Ahmad
Ostovar, Afshin
Fathi, Ali
Razi, Farideh
Nabipour, Iraj
Moghaddassi, Maryam
Shafiee, Gita
Funding for this research was provided by:
no funding
Article History
Received: 9 May 2021
Accepted: 9 November 2021
First Online: 19 November 2021
Declarations
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: The Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program protocol was approved bythe ethics committee of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Science (code: IR.TUMS.EMRI.REC.1394.0036) as well as the Research Ethics Committee of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (code of ethics: B-91-14-2). Written informed consent was signed by all the participants’ be-fore enrolment in the study. In case that the participant was not able toread and write, s/he was asked to be accompanied by a literate person to provide him/her necessary explanations in the local dialect, and then the informed consent was signed by both the participants and the companion after making sure that all aspects of the study were understood. This issue had been approved by the ethics committees. Both ethics committees approved obtaining data analyzed for the objectives of the present study from the participants.
: The Informed consent obtained from the participants included the consent for publication of analyzed data as scientific articles in domestic and international journals.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.