Rindi, Lorenzo Vittorio http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1233-7965
Zaçe, Drieda http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3623-6800
Braccialarghe, Neva http://orcid.org/0009-0001-5168-7477
Massa, Barbara http://orcid.org/0009-0009-5714-034X
Barchi, Virginia http://orcid.org/0009-0004-5725-2628
Iannazzo, Roberta http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6520-932X
Fato, Ilenia http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6049-2410
De Maria, Francesco http://orcid.org/0009-0004-9687-4841
Kontogiannis, Dimitra http://orcid.org/0009-0007-7378-1871
Malagnino, Vincenzo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6561-5298
Sarmati, Loredana http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1452-0333
Iannetta, Marco http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6938-8627
Article History
Accepted: 15 November 2023
First Online: 7 February 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare they did not receive any funding, direct or indirect, for the present work.
: MI received honoraria for lectures from Biogen Italia, AIM Educational, MICOM srl, Roche SpA, and research grants from Gilead and BD Biosciences. LS reports honoraria for lectures and research grants from Merk, Gilead, Abbvie and Angelini SpA. The remaining authors declare that they have no known conflicts of interest.
: All data generated and analyzed during this study are included in this published article (and its electronic supplementary material).
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: MI and LVR designed the study. LVR, NB, IF, RI, BM, FDM, DK and VB performed the literature search and extracted data from the identified articles. MI, VM and LS validated record selection, risk of bias evaluation and extracted data. DZ conducted the meta-analyses and, together with LVR, NB, RI and MI, drafted the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript, contributed to its revision, and approved the final version submitted.