About the Authors

Luca Valenti

luca.valenti@unimi.it

Affiliation Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Alessandro Maloberti

Affiliation Cardiology IV, De Gasperi Department, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, and Medicine Department, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Stefano Signorini

Affiliation Laboratory Medicine, Desio Hospital, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Marta Milano

Affiliation Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Francesca Cesana

Affiliation Cardiology IV, De Gasperi Department, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, and Medicine Department, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Fabrizio Cappellini

Affiliation Laboratory Medicine, Desio Hospital, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Paola Dongiovanni

Affiliation Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Marianna Porzio

Affiliation Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Francesco Soriano

Affiliation Cardiology IV, De Gasperi Department, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, and Medicine Department, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Maura Brambilla

Affiliation Laboratory Medicine, Desio Hospital, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Giancarlo Cesana

Affiliation General Direction, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Policlinico, Research Centre on Public Health, University Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Paolo Brambilla

Affiliation Laboratory Medicine, Desio Hospital, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Cristina Giannattasio

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristina Giannattasio, Silvia Fargion

Affiliation Cardiology IV, De Gasperi Department, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, and Medicine Department, Università Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Silvia Fargion

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristina Giannattasio, Silvia Fargion

Affiliation Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LV SF CG PB GC. Performed the experiments: AM SS MM F. Cesana F. Cappellini PD MB. Analyzed the data: LV AM MM MP FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LV PB SF CG. Wrote the paper: LV AM SF CG MP.