Soofi, Moslem
Pasdar, Yahya
Karami Matin, Behzad
Hamzeh, Behrooz
Rezaei, Satar
Kazemi Karyani, Ali
Moradi Nazar, Mehdi
Soltani, Shahin
Hajizadeh, Mohammad
Salimi, Yahya
Zangeneh, Alireza
Poustchi, Hossein
Sharafkhah, Maryam
Haghdoust, Ali Akbar
Shirzad Ahoodashti, Mahboobeh
Mohammadkarimi, Vahid
Aghazadeh-Attari, Javad
Mansour-Ghanaei, Fariborz
Yazdanbod, Abbas
Eftekhar, Ebrahim
Rahimi, Zahra
Bahramali, Ehsan
Moslem, Alireza
Jamalizadeh, Ahmad
Ardakani, Fatemeh Ezoddini
Zanganeh, Mehdi
Ahmadi, Ali
Ostadrahimi, Alireza
Tohidinezhad, Fariba
Rahimi Kazerooni, Salar
Najafi, Farid
Funding for this research was provided by:
Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (700/534)
Article History
Received: 11 October 2019
Accepted: 4 February 2020
First Online: 28 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: While each cohort center received the ethical approval from local universities, for the purpose of this study and pooling all PERSIAN data, the ethics committee of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences approved the study (Ethics Code: IR.KUMS.REC.1397.866). A written informed consent has been obtained from all study participants in each cohort center. The data of this study is not publically available, so the permission was obtained from the PERSIAN central office to access the data.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.