About the Authors

Andrea Tura

tura@isib.cnr.it

Affiliation Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy

Angela Grassi

Affiliation Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy

Yvonne Winhofer

Affiliation Unit of Gender Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Annamaria Guolo

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Giovanni Pacini

Affiliation Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy

Andrea Mari

Affiliation Metabolic Unit, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

Affiliation Unit of Gender Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK-W GP. Performed the experiments: YW AK-W. Analyzed the data: AT AG AM. Wrote the paper: AT. Revised the manuscript: AM GP AK-W. Statistical advice: AG.