1Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
2Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
3Department of Medicine and Studium Patavinum, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
4Department of Medical and Surgical Science, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Research Center, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
5Department of Geriatric and Intensive Care Medicine, Careggi Hospital and University of Florence, Florence, Italy
6Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
7Biomedical Department of Internal Medicine and Specialistics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
8Clinica Medica, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
9Department of Life, Health, and Environmental Sciences, University of l'Aquila, l'Aquila, Italy
10Italian Society of General Medicine, Avezzano, Italy
11Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
12Hospital S. Maria della Misericordia, Perugia, Italy
13Clinical Epidemiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Reggio Cal Unit, CNR-IFC, Reggio Calabria, Italy
14Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
15Department of Medicine, Medicina Interna 1°, Ca’ Foncello University Hospital, University of Padova, Treviso, Italy
16Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation–Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Aldo Moro University of Bari, Bari, Italy
17Department of Internal Medicine, Hypertension Unit, General Hospital, Rovigo, Italy
18Cardiology IV, A. De Gasperis Department, Health Science Department, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, Milano-Bicocca University, Milan, Italy
19Hypertension Unit, Division of Cardiology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant’Andrea Hospital, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy
20IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy
21First Department of Cardiology, Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
22Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
23Department of Medical Basic Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy
24Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS S. Luca Hospital, Lucca, Italy
25Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
26Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa and Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy