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Angelo Maria Patti, Email: angelomaria.patti@unipa.it
Conceptualization, M.R., A.P.S. and A.A.R.; methodology, R.V.G., M.C., A.M.P.; validation, M.B., K.A.-R.; formal analysis, R.V.G., M.C., A.M.P.; data curation, R.V.G., A.M.P.; writing—original draft preparation, M.R., R.V.G., A.P.S. and A.A.R.; writing—review and editing, A.M.P., M.B., M.C., K.A.-R. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
The authors declare that this article has been written independently, in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Anca Pantea Stoian is currently Vice President of Romanian National Diabetes Committee, and she has given lectures, received honoraria and research support, and participated in conferences, advisory boards and clinical trials sponsored by many pharmaceutical companies including AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Medtronic, Eli Lilly, Merck, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Roche Diagnostics, and Sanofi. Maciej Banach is in the speakers bureau for Amgen, Daichii Sankyo, Esperion, Herbapol, KRKA, MSD, Mylan, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi–Aventis, Servier; consultant to Abbott Vascular, Akcea, Amgen, Daichii Sankyo, Esperion, Lilly, MSD, Resverlogix, Sanofi-Aventis; received grants from Amgen, Mylan, Sanofi, and Valeant. Manfredi Rizzo is full-time Professor of Internal Medicine at University of Palermo, Italy, and currently Medical Director, Novo Nordisk Eastern Europe; he has given lectures, received honoraria and research support, and participated in conferences, advisory boards, and clinical trials sponsored by many pharmaceutical companies including Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Kowa, Eli Lilly, Meda, Mylan, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Novo Nordisk, Novartis, Roche Diagnostics, Sanofi, and Servier. None of the above had any role in this article, which was written independently, without any financial or professional help, and reflects only the opinion of the authors, without any role of the industry.
This research received no external funding.
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