About the Authors

Valentina Spigoni

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Division of Endocrinology. University of Parma and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Parma, Parma, Italy

Monia Cito

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Division of Endocrinology. University of Parma and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Parma, Parma, Italy

Rossella Alinovi

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Silvana Pinelli

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Giovanni Passeri

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Unit of Andrology, Metabolic Bone Diseases and Endocrinology. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Ivana Zavaroni

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Unit of Diabetes and prevention of associated diseases. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Matteo Goldoni

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Marco Campanini

Affiliation IMEM-CNR (Istituto Materiale per l’Elettronica ed il Magnetismo – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) Institute, Parma, Italy

Irene Aliatis

Affiliation Department of Physics and Earth Sciences. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Antonio Mutti

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Riccardo C. Bonadonna

Contributed equally to this work with: Riccardo C. Bonadonna, Alessandra Dei Cas

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Division of Endocrinology. University of Parma and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Parma, Parma, Italy

Alessandra Dei Cas

Contributed equally to this work with: Riccardo C. Bonadonna, Alessandra Dei Cas

alessandra.deicas@unipr.it

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Division of Endocrinology. University of Parma and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Parma, Parma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM ADC. Performed the experiments: VS MC RA SP MC IA. Analyzed the data: VS MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IZ GP ADC. Wrote the paper: VS AM RCB ADC.