Shoaee, Shervan
Saeedi Moghaddam, Sahar
Masinaei, Masoud
Sofi-Mahmudi, Ahmad
Hessari, Hossein
Heydari, Mohammad-Hossein
Shamsoddin, Erfan
Parsaeian, Mahboubeh
Ghasemian, Anooshe
Larijani, Bagher
Fakhrzadeh, Hossein
Farzadfar, Farshad
Article History
Received: 15 August 2022
Accepted: 29 November 2022
First Online: 23 December 2022
Declarations
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: The present study has been conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and with relevant guidelines and regulations. The NASBOD study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, under code IR.TUMS.EMRI.REC.1397.022. As we used no individual data, the need for informed consent was waived off by the Ethical Committee of Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Our article complies with the Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER).
: Not applicable.
: AS-M is a member of the editorial board of BMC Oral Health. Other co-authors declare that they have no competing interests.