Correction to: Diabetol Metab Syndr (2021) 13: 63 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13098-021-00681-0

In this article [1] the author name Kobra Noorian was incorrectly written as Kobra Noorjan. Furthermore, the affiliation details for Leila Rafiee Vardanjani were incorrectly given as Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, 500 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA but should have been School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahrekourd University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran. In Fig. 1 of this article, in the last box, the number of participants for Brazil should have appeared as shown below.

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Process of study recruitment

The original article has been updated.