About the Authors

Caterina Morassutto

Contributed equally to this work with: Caterina Morassutto, Lorenzo Monasta

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Institute for Maternal and Child Health–IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy

Lorenzo Monasta

Contributed equally to this work with: Caterina Morassutto, Lorenzo Monasta

lorenzo.monasta@burlo.trieste.it

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Institute for Maternal and Child Health–IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy

Giuseppe Ricci

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute for Maternal and Child Health–IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Fabio Barbone

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, Department of Medical and Biological Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Luca Ronfani

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Institute for Maternal and Child Health–IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM LM GR FB LR. Performed the experiments: CM LM LR. Analyzed the data: CM LM LR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM LM LR. Wrote the paper: CM LM GR FB LR.