About the Authors

Claudio Carallo

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudio Carallo, Faustina Barbara Scavelli

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “Mater Domini” Hospital, “Magna Græcia” University, Catanzaro, Italy

Faustina Barbara Scavelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudio Carallo, Faustina Barbara Scavelli

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “Mater Domini” Hospital, “Magna Græcia” University, Catanzaro, Italy

Maurizio Cipolla

Affiliation General Practitioners, National Health Service, Catanzaro, Italy

Valentina Merante

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “Mater Domini” Hospital, “Magna Græcia” University, Catanzaro, Italy

Valeria Medaglia

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “Mater Domini” Hospital, “Magna Græcia” University, Catanzaro, Italy

Concetta Irace

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “Mater Domini” Hospital, “Magna Græcia” University, Catanzaro, Italy

Agostino Gnasso

gnasso@unicz.it

Affiliation Metabolic Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “Mater Domini” Hospital, “Magna Græcia” University, Catanzaro, Italy

Progetto Diabete Calabria

Membership of the “Progetto Diabete Calabria” Workgroup is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC AG. Performed the experiments: MC AG CC CI FBS. Analyzed the data: CC AG V. Medaglia CI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FBS. Wrote the paper: AG CC V. Merante. Data collection: MC CC AG.