About the Authors

Katina Aleksovska

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Section of Hygiene, Department of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Emanuele Leoncini

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Section of Hygiene, Department of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Stefano Bonassi

Affiliation Area of Systems Approaches and Non Communicable Diseases, Unit of Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

Alfredo Cesario

Affiliation Deputy Scientific Director and Systems Medicine Coordinator, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

Stefania Boccia

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefania Boccia

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Section of Hygiene, Department of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Frustaci

alessandra.frustaci@sanraffaele.it

Affiliation Area of Systems Approaches and Non Communicable Diseases, Unit of Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: AF EL KA. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KA EL SB AC SB AF.