About the Authors

Alessandro Mantovani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy

Riccardo Rigolon

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy

Isabella Pichiri

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy

Stefano Bonapace

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, ‘‘Sacro Cuore” Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Giovanni Morani

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy

Giacomo Zoppini

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy

Enzo Bonora

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy

Giovanni Targher

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

giovanni.targher@univr.it

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.