Bima, Paolo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2193-0509
Ferrera, Patrizia
Fanelli, Elvira
Revello, Francesco
La Torre, Michele
Pivetta, Emanuele
Rinaldi, Mauro
Verzini, Fabio
Lupia, Enrico
Morello, Fulvio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-9632
Funding for this research was provided by:
Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche, Università degli Studi di Torino (MORF_RILO_21_02)
Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche, Università degli Studi di Torino (MORF_RILO_23_03)
Fondazione Ricerca Molinette (2023)
Università degli Studi di Torino
Article History
Received: 16 October 2025
Accepted: 1 April 2026
First Online: 20 April 2026
Declarations
:
: None of the authors has any direct financial conflict of interest to disclose. FM received grants from the Università degli Studi di Torino (MORF_RILO_21_02, MORF_RILO_23_03). EL received a grant from Fondazione Ricerca Molinette (2023). PB received a grant from the Swiss Heart Foundation (FF23602) unrelated to the present work. FV receives scientific consultancy fees from WL Gore and Cook, unrelated to the present work.
: The study protocol conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the local institutional Ethics Committee (42/2020, prot. 0029448).
: All participants provided informed consent, and data were collected anonymously, in compliance with data protection regulations.