Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with an increased risk of heart block in hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Stefano Bonapace,

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

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Giovanni Targher

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

  * E-mail: giovanni.targher@univr.it

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4325-3900

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