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Prevalence of orthorexic traits in type 2 diabetes mellitus: at the crossroads between nutritional counseling and eating disorders

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Acknowledgements

The study was carried out inside the frame of the Inter-society group Diabetes and Nutrition of the Società Italiana di Diabetologia e Associazione Medici Diabetologi.

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  1. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, “Alma Mater” University, 9, Via Massarenti, 40138, Bologna, Italy

    Francesca Alessandra Barbanti, Giulio Marchesini & Maria Letizia Petroni

  2. Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Marina Trento, Graziella Bruno, Chiara D’Eusebio & Fabio Merlo

  3. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

    Riccardo Bonadonna & Alessandra Dei Cas

  4. Department of Medical Sciences and Rehabilitation, IRCCS Italian Auxologic Institute, Milan, Italy

    Marina Croci & Cecilia Invitti

  5. Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Antonio E. Pontiroli & Anna Veronelli

  6. Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Saula Vigili de Kreutzenberg

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Contributions

GM planned the study, FAB, GM and MLP drafted the manuscript, MT revised the initial version, all authors contributed to data collection and approved the final version, and GM is the guarantor.

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Correspondence to Giulio Marchesini.

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The study was approved by the Ethical Committees of Bologna University Hospital (study 20/2015 /O/OssN) and of peripheral centers.

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All subjects signed an informed consent to participation.

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The population reported in the study was part of a previous report: Petroni et al., Nutr Metab Cardiovascular Dis 2019;29:983–990.

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Barbanti, F.A., Trento, M., Bruno, G. et al. Prevalence of orthorexic traits in type 2 diabetes mellitus: at the crossroads between nutritional counseling and eating disorders. Acta Diabetol 57, 1117–1119 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-020-01547-z

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