About the Authors

Revilane Parente de Alencar Britto

rbrittof@uol.com.br

Affiliation Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Endocrinológicas, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Telma Maria Toledo Florêncio

Affiliation Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A. C. Simões, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Ana Amelia Benedito Silva

Affiliation Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Ermelino Matarazzo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ricardo Sesso

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Jairo Calado Cavalcante

Affiliation Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A. C. Simões, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Ana Lydia Sawaya

Affiliation Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Endocrinológicas, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALS TMTF. Performed the experiments: RPAB. Analyzed the data: JCC ALS RS AABS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RPAB JCC TMTF RS AABS ALS. Wrote the manuscript: RPAB. Participated in the collection and analysis of data: RPAB. Drafted the manuscript: RPAB. Performed the statistical analysis of the data: AABS RS. Interpreted the results: AABS RS. Helped with the statistical analysis of the data: JCC. Responsible for the study design and final revision of the paper: TMTF ALS.