Psychological Factors, Including Alexithymia, in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Risk in HIV Infected Patients: Results of a Cohort Study

Giustino Parruti; Francesco Vadini; Federica Sozio; Elena Mazzott; Tamara Ursini; Ennio Polill; Paola Di Stefano; Monica Tontodonati; Maria C. Verrocchio; Mario Fulcheri; Giulio Calella; Francesca Santilli; Lamberto Manzoli

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054555

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Psychological Factors, Including Alexithymia, in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Risk in HIV Infected Patients: Results of a Cohort Study

Giustino Parruti ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Giustino Parruti, Francesco Vadini

* E-mail: parruti@tin.it

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Francesco Vadini ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Giustino Parruti, Francesco Vadini

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Federica Sozio,

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Elena Mazzott,

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Tamara Ursini,

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Ennio Polill,

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Paola Di Stefano,

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Monica Tontodonati,

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Maria C. Verrocchio,

Affiliation Clinical Psychology Division, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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Mario Fulcheri,

Affiliation Clinical Psychology Division, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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Giulio Calella,

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Pescara General Hospital, Pescara, Italy
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Francesca Santilli,

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Aging, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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Lamberto Manzoli

Affiliation Section of Hygiene, Epidemiology, Pharmacology and Legal Medicine, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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Psychological Factors, Including Alexithymia, in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Risk in HIV Infected Patients: Results of a Cohort Study

Giustino Parruti,
Francesco Vadini,
Federica Sozio,
Elena Mazzott,
Tamara Ursini,
Ennio Polill,
Paola Di Stefano,
Monica Tontodonati,
Maria C. Verrocchio,
Mario Fulcheri

Published: January 22, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054555

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Request for correction in authors' list

Posted by ElenaMazzotta on 23 Apr 2013 at 21:52 GMT

In the authors list the surnames of Elena Mazzotta and Ennio Polilli are uncorrectly propose as Mazzott and Polill respectively. We would like therefore that you could amend these surnames into their correct form as: Elena Mazzotta and Ennio Polilli.

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