About the Authors

Mario Vetrano

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Danilo Ranieri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Monica Nanni

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Antonio Pavan

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliations Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Florence Malisan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Maria Chiara Vulpiani

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Vincenzo Visco

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vincenzo.visco1@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.