About the Authors

Paolo Sorino

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Maria Gabriella Caruso

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Nutritional Biochemistry, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Giovanni Misciagna

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Scientific and Ethical Committee, Polyclinic Hospital, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Caterina Bonfiglio

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Angelo Campanella

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Antonella Mirizzi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Isabella Franco

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Antonella Bianco

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Claudia Buongiorno

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Rosalba Liuzzi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Anna Maria Cisternino

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Clinical Nutrition Outpatient Clinic, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Maria Notarnicola

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Nutritional Biochemistry, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Marisa Chiloiro

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation San Giacomo Hospital Largo S. Veneziani, Monopoli, Bari, Italy

Giovanni Pascoschi

Contributed equally to this work with: Giovanni Pascoschi, Alberto Rubén Osella

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy

Alberto Rubén Osella

Contributed equally to this work with: Giovanni Pascoschi, Alberto Rubén Osella

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

arosella@irccsdebellis.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Gastroenterology, “S de Bellis” Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

MICOL Group

Membership of the MICOL Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.