About the Authors

Salvatore Petta

Contributed equally to this work with: Salvatore Petta, Alessandro Ciresi

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

salvatore.petta@unipa.it

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Alessandro Ciresi

Contributed equally to this work with: Salvatore Petta, Alessandro Ciresi

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

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Jessica Bianco

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Vincenzo Geraci

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Roberta Boemi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Luigi Galvano

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medicina Generale, Palermo, Italy

Franco Magliozzo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medicina Generale, Palermo, Italy

Giovanni Merlino

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medicina Generale, Palermo, Italy

Antonio Craxì

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

Affiliation Section of Gastroenterology, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Carla Giordano

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

Affiliation Section of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, Di.Bi.M.I.S., University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.