Pirina, Pietro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1457-8025
Zinellu, Elisabetta
Paliogiannis, Panagiotis
Fois, Alessandro G.
Marras, Viviana
Sotgia, Salvatore
Carru, Ciriaco
Zinellu, Angelo
Article History
Received: 16 November 2017
Accepted: 25 October 2018
First Online: 8 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Institutional Local Ethics Committee (Azienda Sanitaria Locale n°1 di Sassari (Italy) (prot. 2175/CE del 21/04/2015), and was in accordance with the principles of Declaration of Helsinki. All subjects provided written informed consent.
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: The author Pietro Pirina is currently acting as an Associate Editor for BMC Pulmonary Medicine. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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