Caputo, Marina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0470-9343
Pecere, Alessandro
Sarro, Andrea
Mele, Chiara
Ucciero, Andrealuna
Pagano, Loredana
Prodam, Flavia
Aimaretti, Gianluca
Marzullo, Paolo
Barone-Adesi, Francesco
Article History
Received: 22 December 2019
Accepted: 4 February 2020
First Online: 13 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee (ethical committee of the “Maggiore della Carità” Hospital, Novara, CE number 60/19) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments.
: The study was conducted using data routinely collected in the regional administrative health care databases in which authors had access to anonymized data only, hence informed consent was not required.