1 Section of Clinical Biochemistry and School of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Electronic address: giuseppe.lippi@univr.it.
2 Medical Direction, Rovereto Hospital, Service of Clinical Governance and Medical Direction, Provincial Agency for Social and Sanitary Services (APSS), Trento, Italy.
3 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.