Hanaei, Sara
Abdollahzade, Sina
Sadr, Maryam
Mirbolouk, Mohammad Hossein
Khoshnevisan, Alireza
Rezaei, Nima http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-1827
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Elite Researcher Grant Committee from National Institutes for Medical Research Development (NIMAD), Tehran, Iran (958638)
Article History
Received: 1 June 2017
Accepted: 23 March 2018
First Online: 10 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with 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. All the study participants were requested to fill informed consent forms prior to recruitment and sampling. The study was approved by Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical SciencesĀ and also the Ethics Committee of National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD).
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