Mannino, Gaia Chiara
Pezzilli, Serena
Averta, Carolina
Fuoco, Anastasia
Spiga, Rosangela
Mancuso, Elettra
Di Fatta, Concetta
Perticone, Francesco
Prudente, Sabrina
Trischitta, Vincenzo
Andreozzi, Francesco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9375-1513
Sesti, Giorgio
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Community 7th framework Programme (MEDIGENE-FP7-279171-1)
Italian Ministry of University and Research MIUR (2015MPESjS_006)
Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente 2018–2019, Ricerca Corrente 2018–2019)
Sapienza Università di Roma (Research Grant 2017)
Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (voluntary contribution "5 x 1000", voluntary contribution "5 x 1000")
Article History
Received: 10 June 2019
Accepted: 5 August 2019
First Online: 13 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol and informed consent procedures were approved by the local research ethics committees [Comitato Etico Azienda Ospedaliera “Mater Domini”, Catanzaro (Italy); and IRCSS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (Italy)]. This study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and all subjects provided signed informed consent before commencing the studies.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.