About the Authors

Xavier Bosch

xavbosch@clinic.ub.es

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Cristina Hernández

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Juan M. Pericas

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Pamela Doti

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Ana Marušić

Affiliation Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XB CH JP PD AM. Performed the experiments: CH JP PD. Analyzed the data: XB CH JP PD AM. Wrote the paper: XB AM. Acquisition of data: XB CH JP PD. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: XB CH JP PD AM. Statistical analysis: CH JP. Administrative, technical, or material support: XB CH JP PD. Study supervision: XB.