About the Authors

Federico Guerra

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, “Hypertension Excellence Centre” of the European Society of Hypertension, University Hospital “Ospedali Riuniti,” University “Politecnica delle Marche,” Ancona, Italy

Lucia Mancinelli

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, “Hypertension Excellence Centre” of the European Society of Hypertension, University Hospital “Ospedali Riuniti,” University “Politecnica delle Marche,” Ancona, Italy

Luca Angelini

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, “Hypertension Excellence Centre” of the European Society of Hypertension, University Hospital “Ospedali Riuniti,” University “Politecnica delle Marche,” Ancona, Italy

Marco Fortunati

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, “Hypertension Excellence Centre” of the European Society of Hypertension, University Hospital “Ospedali Riuniti,” University “Politecnica delle Marche,” Ancona, Italy

Alessandro Rappelli

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, “Hypertension Excellence Centre” of the European Society of Hypertension, University Hospital “Ospedali Riuniti,” University “Politecnica delle Marche,” Ancona, Italy

Paolo Dessì-Fulgheri

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, “Hypertension Excellence Centre” of the European Society of Hypertension, University Hospital “Ospedali Riuniti,” University “Politecnica delle Marche,” Ancona, Italy

Riccardo Sarzani

r.sarzani@univpm.it

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, “Hypertension Excellence Centre” of the European Society of Hypertension, University Hospital “Ospedali Riuniti,” University “Politecnica delle Marche,” Ancona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG RS. Performed the experiments: LM LA MF. Analyzed the data: FG RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG LM LA MF. Wrote the paper: FG RS. Reviewed the manuscript: PDF AR.