Acknowledgments
RaNCD is part of PERSIAN national cohort and we would like to thank Professor Reza Malekzadeh, Deputy of Research and Technology at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran and Director of the PERSIAN cohort, and also Dr. Hossein Poustchi Executive Director of PERSIAN cohort for all their supports during design and running of RaNCD.
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. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (ethics approval number: KUMS.REC.1394.318).
Informed consent: Written informed consent was obtained from each studied subject after explaining the purpose of the study. The right of subjects to withdraw from the study at any time and subject’s information is reserved and will not be published.
Consent for publication: Not applicable
Availability of data and materials: Data will be available upon request from the corresponding author.
Competing interests: All authors have no conflict of interest.
Funding: This study was supported by Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran and Kermanshah University of Medical Science (Grant No: 92472).
Authors' contributions: SM and YP equally contributed to the conception and design of the research; FN, BH, ES contributed to data collection; SM, YP and MM contributed to the acquisition and analysis of the data; SM, YP and MS contributed to the interpretation of the data; and SM, MS, SC and YP contributed to draft the manuscript. All authors are in agreement with the manuscript and declare that the content has not been published elsewhere.
Authors' information:
1Associate Professor in Nutritional Sciences, Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
2Associate Professor, Environmental Determinates of Health Research Center, School of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
3 Academic researcher, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
4 Student Research Committee, School of Nutritional Sciences and Food Technology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
5 Professor in Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Communing Developmental and Health Promotion Research center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
6 Assistant Professor in Epidemiology , Behavioral Disease Research Center , Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
7 Associate Professor, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Department, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
8 Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, [email protected]
*Correspond to: Shima Moradi, MSc
Academic researcher, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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