Canevelli, Marco http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7333-6478
Raganato, Riccardo
Remiddi, Francesca
Quarata, Federica
Valletta, Martina
Bruno, Giuseppe
Cesari, Matteo
Article History
Received: 6 January 2019
Accepted: 27 February 2019
First Online: 6 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Marco Canevelli is supported by a research grant of the Italian Ministry of Health (GR-2016-02364975) for the project “Dementia in immigrants and ethnic minorities living in Italy: clinical-epidemiological aspects and public health perspectives” (ImmiDem). Matteo Cesari has received honoraria for presentations at scientific meetings and/or research funding from Nestlé and Pfizer. He is involved in the coordination of an Innovative Medicines Initiative-funded project [including partners from the European Federation Pharmaceutical Industries and Associates (Sanofi, Novartis, Servier, GSK, Lilly)]. The other authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.
: All procedures performed in our study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: Patients and caregivers (or legal guardians when necessary) provided their written informed consent for allowing the utilization of the collected data for research purposes (as required by the local Ethics Committee). Data used in the present analyses were exclusively retrieved from medical charts where information was recorded as part of the standard clinical routine.