About the Authors
- Giuseppe Maiolino
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Contributed equally to this work with: Giuseppe Maiolino, Luigi Pedon
* E-mail: gianpaolo.rossi@unipd.it
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 4, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Luigi Pedon
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Contributed equally to this work with: Giuseppe Maiolino, Luigi Pedon
Affiliation Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale di Cittadella, Cittadella, Italy
- Maurizio Cesari
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 4, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Anna Chiara Frigo
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Robert L. Wolfert
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Affiliation diaDexus, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Marlena Barisa
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 4, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Leopoldo Pagliani
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 4, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Giacomo Rossitto
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 4, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Teresa Maria Seccia
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 4, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Mario Zanchetta
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Affiliation Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedale di Cittadella, Cittadella, Italy
- Gian Paolo Rossi
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine 4, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GPR. Performed the experiments: MZ LP. Analyzed the data: GPR GM ACF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLW. Wrote the paper: GPR MZ LP GM. Carried out the baseline survey and the follow-up data collection: MC MB LP GR TMS.