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Article History

Received: 11 December 2021

Accepted: 31 December 2021

First Online: 20 January 2022

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: Francesco M. Carrano, Angelo Iossa, Nicola Di Lorenzo, Gianfranco Silecchia, Katerina-Maria Kontouli, Dimitris Mavridis, Isaias Alarçon, Daniel M. Felsenreich, Sergi Sanchez-Cordero, Angelo Di Vincenzo, M. Carmen Balagué-Ponz, Rachel L. Batterham, Nicole Bouvy, Catalin Copaescu, Dror Dicker, Martin Fried, Daniela Godoroja, David Goitein, Jason C.G. Halford, Marina Kalogridaki, Maurizio De Luca, Salvador Morales-Conde Gerhard Prager,7 Andrea Pucci, Ramon Vilallonga, Iris Zani, Per Olav Vandvik, Stavros A. Antoniou, Ferdinando Agresta, Carmil Azran, Luca Busetto, Maura Buza, Berta Gonzalo Prats, Jitka Herlesova, Giacomo Piatto, Suzanne Pruijssers, Shlomi Rayman and Eugenia Romano have no conflict of interest or financial ties to disclose. Detailed competing interests statements are available in .

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