About the Authors

Luisa Lampignano

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Population Health Unit—"Salus in Apulia Study” National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Roberta Zupo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Population Health Unit—"Salus in Apulia Study” National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Rossella Donghia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Population Health Unit—"Salus in Apulia Study” National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Vito Guerra

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Population Health Unit—"Salus in Apulia Study” National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Fabio Castellana

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Population Health Unit—"Salus in Apulia Study” National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Isanna Murro

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, University of Bari, School of Medicine, Policlinico, Bari, Italy

Carmen Di Noia

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, University of Bari, School of Medicine, Policlinico, Bari, Italy

Rodolfo Sardone

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Unit—"Salus in Apulia Study” National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Gianluigi Giannelli

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Scientific Direction, National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis", Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy

Giovanni De Pergola

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

gdepergola@libero.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, University of Bari, School of Medicine, Policlinico, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.