About the Authors

Giuseppe Rengo

Contributed equally to this work with: Giuseppe Rengo, Gennaro Pagano

giuseppe.rengo@unina.it (GR); gennaropagano85@hotmail.com (GP)

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, “Salvatore Maugeri” Foundation, IRCCS – Scientific Institute of Telese Terme, Benevento, Italy, Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Gennaro Pagano

Contributed equally to this work with: Giuseppe Rengo, Gennaro Pagano

giuseppe.rengo@unina.it (GR); gennaropagano85@hotmail.com (GP)

Affiliation Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Alessandro Squizzato

Affiliation Research Center on Thromboembolic Disorders and Antithrombotic Therapies, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Lorenzo Moja

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute, Milan, Italy

Grazia Daniela Femminella

Affiliation Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Claudio de Lucia

Affiliation Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Klara Komici

Affiliation Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Valentina Parisi

Affiliation Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Gianluigi Savarese

Affiliation Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Nicola Ferrara

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, “Salvatore Maugeri” Foundation, IRCCS – Scientific Institute of Telese Terme, Benevento, Italy, Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Pasquale Perrone-Filardi

Affiliation Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Dario Leosco

Affiliation Department of Medical Translational Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GP LM AS. Analyzed the data: GP GDF CdL KK NF PPF DL GS VP. Wrote the paper: GP GR AS LM.