About the Authors

Angelo Carpi

angelo.carpi@med.unipi.it

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Giuseppe Rossi

Affiliation National Research Council (CNR), Unit of epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Clinical Physiology and G. Monasterio Foundation, Pisa, Italy

Andrea Nicolini

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Giorgio Iervasi

Affiliation National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Clinical Physiology and G. Monasterio Foundation, Pisa, Italy

Matteo Russo

Affiliation Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Experimental Medicine, Rome, Italy; IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Rome, Italy

Jeffrey Mechanick

Affiliation Metabolic Support, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Participated in data collection: AC GR AN GI MR JM. Performed the statistical analysis: GR. Approved the manuscript: AC GR AN GI MR JM. Conceived and designed the experiments: AC GR AN GI MR JM. Analyzed the data: JM MR. Wrote the paper: JM MR.