About the Authors
- Sergio Harari
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sergio Harari, Fabiana Madotto
* E-mail: sharari@hotmail.it
Affiliation Unità Operativa, di Pneumologia e Terapia Semi-Intensiva Respiratoria, Servizio di Fisiopatologia Respiratoria ed Emodinamica Polmonare, Ospedale San Giuseppe-MultiMedica IRCCS, Milan, Italy
- Fabiana Madotto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sergio Harari, Fabiana Madotto
Affiliation Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Antonella Caminati
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Affiliation Unità Operativa, di Pneumologia e Terapia Semi-Intensiva Respiratoria, Servizio di Fisiopatologia Respiratoria ed Emodinamica Polmonare, Ospedale San Giuseppe-MultiMedica IRCCS, Milan, Italy
- Sara Conti
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Affiliation Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Giancarlo Cesana
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Affiliation Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Competing Interests
Outside the submitted work, Dr. Harari reports personal fees from InterMune s.r.l, Roche, Boehringer Ingelheim and Dr. Caminati from InterMune s.r.l., Roche and Boehringer Ingelheim Italia s.p.a. The Research Center on Public Health received a grant from InterMune s.r.l. for taking part in the project that originated this publication, but no personal fees were received by Dr. Cesana, Madotto and Conti.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SH FM AC SC. Analyzed the data: FM SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH GC. Wrote the paper: SH FM AC SC GC. Guarantor of the content of the manuscript: SH.