1Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
2Division of Cardiology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
3Department of Medicine, Nephrology-Hypertension Division, University of Miami School of Medicine, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, USA
4Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
5Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
6Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
7Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy
8Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
9Centro di Ricerca Clinica, Fondazione Università “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy
10Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
11Medical University of Sassari, INBB University Consortium, Sassari, Italy
12Chief Hypertension Unit, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
13Department of Cardiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
14Thord Division of Internal Medicine, “L. Sacco” Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
15Department of Angio-cardio-neurology, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy
16Cardiovascular Research Group, Department of Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
17AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden
18IIa Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita “La Sapienza”, Pozzilli (Is), Italy
19Dipartimento Malattie Cardiovascolari, Ospedale R, Silvestrini, Perugia, Italy
