1 Laboratory of Immunopathology and Immunosenescence, Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo, Corso Tuköry, 211, 90134, Palermo, Italy.
2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, "P. Giaccone" University Hospital, Palermo, Italy.
3 Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, National Research Council of Italy, Palermo, Italy.
4 Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
5 Laboratory of Immunopathology and Immunosenescence, Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo, Corso Tuköry, 211, 90134, Palermo, Italy. calogero.caruso@unipa.it.
6 Unit of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Molecular Medicine, and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
7 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
8 Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.