Barbieri, Maria Antonietta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2019-4696
Sorbara, Emanuela Elisa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2447-8610
Cicala, Giuseppe
Santoro, Vincenza
Cutroneo, Paola Maria
Franchina, Tindara
Spina, Edoardo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2509-7449
Article History
Accepted: 23 August 2021
First Online: 15 September 2021
Declarations
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: No sources of funding were used to prepare this article.
: Maria Antonietta Barbieri, Emanuela Elisa Sorbara, Giuseppe Cicala, Vincenza Santoro, Paola Maria Cutroneo, Tindara Franchina, and Edoardo Spina have no conflicts of interest that are relevant to the content of this article. The research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Messina (protocol number 13/2021; approved on 26 January 2021).
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated for this study will not be made publicly available. National dataset in aggregated form is available online, while the access to the regional in single, non-aggregated dataset requires the approval of the Italian Medicine Agency.
: All authors listed have sufficiently contributed to the entire content of the manuscript and have given their consent for publication. Project coordination: Edoardo Spina Acquisition of data: Paola Maria Cutroneo and Edoardo Spina. Analysis and interpretation of data: Maria Antonietta Barbieri, Emanuela Elisa Sorbara, Giuseppe Cicala, and Vincenza Santoro. Clinical evaluation of data: Tindara Franchina and Edoardo Spina. Wrote the paper: Maria Antonietta Barbieri, Emanuela Elisa Sorbara, and Tindara Franchina. Critical revision: Paola Maria Cutroneo, Tindara Franchina, and Edoardo Spina. Final approval of the version to be published: Maria Antonietta Barbieri, Emanuela Elisa Sorbara, Giuseppe Cicala, Vincenza Santoro, Paola Maria Cutroneo, Tindara Franchina, and Edoardo Spina.