About the Authors

Giovanni Zuliani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

giovanni.zuliani@unife.it

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery, and Experimental Medicine, Section of Internal and Cardiopulmonary Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Stefano Volpato

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery, and Experimental Medicine, Section of Internal and Cardiopulmonary Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Marco Dugo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery, and Experimental Medicine, Section of Internal and Cardiopulmonary Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Giovanni B. Vigna

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery, and Experimental Medicine, Section of Internal and Cardiopulmonary Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Mario Luca Morieri

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery, and Experimental Medicine, Section of Internal and Cardiopulmonary Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Marcello Maggio

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Antonio Cherubini

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, INNRCA, Ancona, Italy

Stefania Bandinelli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Azienda Sanitaria Firenze, Italy

Jack M. Guralnik

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luigi Ferrucci

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.