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Asieh Golozar
Contributed equally to this work with: Asieh Golozar, Hooman Khademi
Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Hooman Khademi
Contributed equally to this work with: Asieh Golozar, Hooman Khademi
Affiliation: Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Farin Kamangar
Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Hossein Poutschi
Affiliation: Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Farhad Islami
Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Christian C. Abnet
Affiliation: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Neal D. Freedman
Affiliation: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Philip R. Taylor
Affiliation: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Paul Pharoah
Affiliation: Cancer Research UK, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Paolo Boffetta
Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
Paul J. Brennan
Affiliation: International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Sanford M. Dawsey
Affiliation: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Reza Malekzadeh
Affiliation: Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Arash Etemadi
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Introduction
Chronic diseases, including diabetes mellitus (DM), have replaced infectious diseases as the main causes of morbidity and mortality in the developing world [1], [2]. Seventy percent of diabetics in 2010...