Running Title: Systemic sclerosis, adipokines and BMI
Florenzo Iannone*, Emanuela Praino*, Cinzia Rotondo, Dorotea Natuzzi, Rita Bizzoca, Nunzia Lacarpia, Fabio Cacciapaglia.
*These authors equally contributed to this work
1Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergency and Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari Italy
2Department of medical and surgical sciences - Rheumatology Unit, University of Foggia, Italy
1Florenzo Iannone
Full Professor of Rheumatology, MD, PhD florenzo.iannone@uniba.it
1Emanuela Praino
Research Assistant, MD emanuelapraino@yahoo.it
2Rotondo Cinzia
Research Assistant, MD cinzia.rotondo@gmail.com
1Dorotea Natuzzi
Biologist, BD dorotea.natuzzi@uniba.it
1Rita Bizzoca
Biologist, BD rita.bizzoca@uniba.it
1Nunzia Lacarpia
Biologist, BDnunzia.lacarpia@uniba.it
1Marco Fornaro
Research Assistant, MD marco3987@hotmail.it
1Fabio Cacciapaglia
Lecturer, MD, PhD fabio.cacciapaglia79@gmail.com
Corresponding author: Florenzo Iannone, MD, PhD, Full Professor of Rheumatology
Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergency and Transplantation, Policlinico, Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy. E-mail:florenzo.iannone@uniba.it
Key words: Visfatin, Leptin, Adiponectin, body weight
Competing interest: none
Funding: the study had no financial support.
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