About the Authors

Claudio Pedone

c.pedone@unicampus.it

Affiliation Unit of Geriatrics, “Campus Biomedico” University, Rome, Italy

Baback Roshanravan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington—Kidney Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Simone Scarlata

Affiliation Unit of Geriatrics, “Campus Biomedico” University, Rome, Italy

Kushang V. Patel

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Luigi Ferrucci

Affiliation Longitudinal Study Section, Clinical research Branch, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi

Affiliations Unit of Geriatrics, “Campus Biomedico” University, Rome, Italy, “S. Raffaele—Cittadella della Carità” Foundation, Taranto, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP BR RAI LF. Performed the experiments: CP BR RAI KVP SS. Analyzed the data: CP SS RAI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP BR RAI LF. Wrote the paper: CP BR KVP SS LF RAI.