About the Authors

Roberta D'Ambrosio

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

roberta.dambrosio@policlinico.mi.it

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Irene Campi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Marco Maggioni

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Division of Pathology, Milan, Italy

Riccardo Perbellini

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Enza Giammona

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Roberta Stucchi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Marta Borghi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Elisabetta Degasperi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Annalisa De Silvestri

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology and Biometric Unit, Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Luca Persani

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Laura Fugazzola

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, CRC “A.M. e A. Migliavacca” Center for Liver Disease, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Pietro Lampertico

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, CRC “A.M. e A. Migliavacca” Center for Liver Disease, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.