About the Authors

Alberto Pilotto

alberto.pilotto@galliera.it (AP); geriat.dot@geriatria.uniba.it (FP)

Affiliations Department of OrthoGeriatrics, Rehabilitation and Stabilization, Frailty Area, E.O. Galliera Hospital, National Relevance and High Specialization Hospital, Genova, Italy, Geriatrics Unit, Azienda ULSS 16 Padova, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy

Francesco Panza

alberto.pilotto@galliera.it (AP); geriat.dot@geriatria.uniba.it (FP)

Affiliations Neurodegenerative Disease Unit, Department of Basic Medicine, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy, Gerontology-Geriatrics Research Laboratory, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Massimiliano Copetti

Affiliation Unit of Biostatistics, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy

Matteo Simonato

Affiliation Geriatrics Unit, Azienda ULSS 16 Padova, S. Antonio Hospital, Padova, Italy

Daniele Sancarlo

Affiliation Gerontology-Geriatrics Research Laboratory, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Pietro Gallina

Affiliation Health Directorate, Azienda ULSS 16, Padova, Italy

Timo Strandberg

Affiliations Geriatric Clinic, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Health Sciences/Geriatrics, University of Oulu, and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

MPI_AGE Project Investigators

The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP FP MS DS TS. Performed the experiments: MC PG. Analyzed the data: MC PG. Wrote the paper: AP FP MS DS TS.