About the Authors

Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Mariana Moraes Contti, Hong Si Nga, Ariane Moyses Bravin, Henrique Mochida Takase, Rosa Marlene Viero, Trycia Nunes da Silva

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

landrade@fmb.unesp.br

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State(UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

Mariana Moraes Contti

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Mariana Moraes Contti, Hong Si Nga, Ariane Moyses Bravin, Henrique Mochida Takase, Rosa Marlene Viero, Trycia Nunes da Silva

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State(UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

Hong Si Nga

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Mariana Moraes Contti, Hong Si Nga, Ariane Moyses Bravin, Henrique Mochida Takase, Rosa Marlene Viero, Trycia Nunes da Silva

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State(UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

Ariane Moyses Bravin

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Mariana Moraes Contti, Hong Si Nga, Ariane Moyses Bravin, Henrique Mochida Takase, Rosa Marlene Viero, Trycia Nunes da Silva

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State(UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

Henrique Mochida Takase

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Mariana Moraes Contti, Hong Si Nga, Ariane Moyses Bravin, Henrique Mochida Takase, Rosa Marlene Viero, Trycia Nunes da Silva

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State(UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

Rosa Marlene Viero

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Mariana Moraes Contti, Hong Si Nga, Ariane Moyses Bravin, Henrique Mochida Takase, Rosa Marlene Viero, Trycia Nunes da Silva

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State(UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil

Trycia Nunes da Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Mariana Moraes Contti, Hong Si Nga, Ariane Moyses Bravin, Henrique Mochida Takase, Rosa Marlene Viero, Trycia Nunes da Silva

Roles Data curation

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State (UNESP), Botucatu/SP, Brazil

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Estadual de Bauru, Bauru, São Paulo State, Brazil

Kelem De Nardi Chagas

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State (UNESP), Botucatu/SP, Brazil

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, São Paulo State, Brazil

Lilian Monteiro Pereira Palma

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, University São Paulo State (UNESP), Botucatu/SP, Brazil

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil

Competing Interests

Palma LMP is a speaker for Alexion Pharma. Chagas KDN is Associate Medical Director of Alexion Pharma. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.