Ebrahimpur, Mahbube
Mohammadi-Vajari, Erfan
Sharifi, Yasaman
Ghotbi, Leila
Sarvari, Masoumeh
Ayati, Aryan
Hashemi, Baran
Shadman, Zhaleh
Khashayar, Pouria
Ostovar, Afshin
Fahimfar, Noushin
Shafiee, Gita
Shahmohamadi, Elnaz
Yavari, Tahereh
Nabipour, Iraj
Larijani, Bagher
Payab, Moloud
Sharifi, Farshad
Article History
Received: 14 July 2023
Accepted: 23 February 2024
First Online: 5 March 2024
Declarations
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: 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. This study was approved by the Ethical Research Committee (ERC) of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, which is affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences and the ERC of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences and obtained ethical code IR.TUMS.EMRI.REC.1394.0036. All the participants have signed the informed consent after reading or explaining for them the content of informed consent, before taking part in the study. Moreover, in cases of illiterate participants, another informed consent was signed by a legal guardian of the participants.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.