About the Authors

Francesco Landi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Riccardo Calvani

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

riccardo.calvani@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Anna Picca

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Matteo Tosato

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Anna Maria Martone

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Emanuela D’Angelo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Elisabetta Serafini

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Roberto Bernabei

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Emanuele Marzetti

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics, Teaching Hospital "Agostino Gemelli", Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: E.M, F.L., M.T., R.B., and R.C. are partners of the SPRINTT Consortium, which is partly funded by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.