Vitamin D Status in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Inflammation, Arterial Stiffness and Circulating Progenitor Cell Number

• Alberto Lo Gullo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Lo Gullo, Giuseppe Mandraffino

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Giuseppe Mandraffino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Lo Gullo, Giuseppe Mandraffino

  * E-mail: gmandraffino@unime.it

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Gianluca Bagnato,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Caterina Oriana Aragona,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Egidio Imbalzano,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Angela D’Ascola,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemical, Physiological and Nutritional Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Francesco Rotondo,

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery and Oncology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Antonella Cinquegrani,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and of Morphologic and Functional Images, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Enricomaria Mormina,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and of Morphologic and Functional Images, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Carlo Saitta,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Antonio Giovanni Versace,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Maria Adriana Sardo,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Renato Lo Gullo,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Saverio Loddo,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemical, Physiological and Nutritional Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Antonino Saitta

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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