Tella Sadighpour ¹ , Mohamad Kogani ² , Hamid Hosseinpour ³, Ramin Talaie ⁴ , Nahid Dadashzadeh ^5* , Rohollah Valizadeh <sup>6*

1</sup> Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Florida, USA and American University of Antigua College of Medicine, Antigua and Barbuda
² Research Center for Environmental Contaminants (RCEC), Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran
³ Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, Shahid Modarres Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
⁵ Legal Medicine Research Center, Legal Medicine Organization, Tehran, Iran
⁶ Student Research Committee, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Correspondence to Rohollah Valizadeh, Valizadeh.r@tak.ium.ac.ir