About the Authors

Elena Dozio

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Dozio, Alexis Elias Malavazos

elena.dozio@unimi.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Chair of Clinical Pathology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Alexis Elias Malavazos

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Dozio, Alexis Elias Malavazos

Affiliation Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Elena Vianello

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Chair of Clinical Pathology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Silvia Briganti

Affiliation Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Giada Dogliotti

Current address: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Chair of Clinical Pathology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Francesco Bandera

Affiliation Cardiology Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Francesca Giacomazzi

Affiliation Cardiac Surgery Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Serenella Castelvecchio

Affiliation Cardiac Surgery Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Lorenzo Menicanti

Affiliation Cardiac Surgery Unit, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Alexander Sigrüener

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gerd Schmitz

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Massimiliano Marco Corsi Romanelli

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Chair of Clinical Pathology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Service of Laboratory Medicine 1-Clinical Pathology, Department of Health Services of Diagnosis and Treatment-Laboratory Medicine, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ED AEM MMCR. Performed the experiments: EV GD FB AS. Analyzed the data: ED SB GD AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG SC LM GS. Wrote the paper: ED AEM.