About the Authors

Chiara Criscuolo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xgilda@hotmail.com (GC); sky569@hotmail.com (CC)

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Gilda Cennamo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

xgilda@hotmail.com (GC); sky569@hotmail.com (CC)

Affiliation Public Health Department, Eye Clinic, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Daniela Montorio

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Antonio Carotenuto

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Alfonso Strianese

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Elena Salvatore

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Fausto Tranfa

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Giovanni Cennamo

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Roberta Lanzillo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Vincenzo Brescia Morra

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, “Federico II” University Naples, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

R. Lanzillo received personal fees for public speaking or consultancy from Merck, Novartis, Biogen, Roche, Genzyme, Teva and Almirall. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.