About the Authors

Valeria Pecce

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Pecce, Marialuisa Sponziello

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Marialuisa Sponziello

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Pecce, Marialuisa Sponziello

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Damante

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Area, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Francesca Rosignolo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Cosimo Durante

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Livia Lamartina

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Giorgio Grani

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Diego Russo

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Catanzaro, Italy

Cira Rosaria di Gioia

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Sebastiano Filetti

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Antonella Verrienti

Roles Conceptualization

antonella.verrienti@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.