Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
• ² Doctoral School, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021, Bucharest, Romania.
• ³ Doctoral School, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021, Bucharest, Romania. ioana-cristina.bica@drd.umfcd.ro.
• ⁴ Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• ⁵ Medical Research Center, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
• ⁶ Department of Training and Studies, Royal Hospital, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman.
• ⁷ Department of Preventive Cardiology and Lipidology, Medical University of Lodz (MUL), Lodz, Poland.
• ⁸ Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute (PMMHRI), Lodz, Poland.
• ⁹ Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Biochemistry, Mohamed Bin Rashid University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• ¹¹ IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan, Italy.
• ¹² Clinic of Endocrinology, Ankara Güven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
• ¹³ Unit of Cardiology, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁴ Unit of Research and International Cooperation, University Hospital of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics (Bind), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Department of Endocrinology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
• ¹⁷ Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ¹⁸ Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital and Bride, Karnal, India.
• ¹⁹ Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
• ²⁰ Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ²¹ Department of Medicine and Oncology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
• ²² The Research Institute, Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• ²³ Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, University Hospital, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• ²⁴ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital Campus, University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL), London, UK.
• ²⁵ Dental Institute, Periodontology Unit, Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, King's College London, London, UK.
• ²⁶ Diabetes Center, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
• ²⁷ Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Laboratory, Cardiovascular Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ²⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.
• ²⁹ Applied Biomedical Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
• ³⁰ Biotechnology Research Center, Pharmaceutical Technology Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sci-Ences, Mashhad, Iran.
• ³¹ Department of Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
• ³² Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• ³³ Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• ³⁴ Cicarrone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medi-Cine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ³⁵ Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai, India.
• ³⁶ Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (ProMise), School of Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.