This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to cite this article as doi: differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please 10.1111/IJCP.13829 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved DR MAJID GHAYOUR-MOBARHAN (Orcid ID : 0000-0002-1081-6754) Article type : Letter Normative serum lipid profiles in the Iranian adult population Niloofar Shabani 1* , Atieh Kamel Khodabandeh 1* , Mary Kathryn Bohn 2* , Hamideh Ghazizadeh 3,4,5* , Maryam Saberi-Karimian 3,4,5 , Roshanak Ghafarian Zirak 4 , Marzieh Emamian 4 , Atlas Haddadi Aval 4 , Yasaman Fazli 4 , Maryam Tayefi 6 , Habibollah Esmaily 1 , Gordon A. Ferns 7 , Ghazaleh Rahnama 4 , Nadia Manavi 4 , Khosrow Adeli 2,8# , Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan 4,5# Affiliations 1. Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, School of Health, Management & Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical sciences, Mashhad, Iran. 2. CALIPER Program, Divisions of Clinical Biochemistry, Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada 3. Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4. Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 5. International UNESCO Center for Health-Related Basic Sciences and Human Nutrition, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 6. Norwegian Center for e-health Research, University hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway 7. Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Division of Medical Education, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex BN1 9PH, UK 8. Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Accepted Article