The authors wish to thank all the study participants for their collaboration.The research group belongs to the“Centros de Investigacion en Red”(CIBERobn,of the“Instituto de Salud Carlos III).MMV was supported by a“Rio Hortega”grant from“Instituto de Salud Carlos III,”Madrid,Spain(CM18/00120);JCFG was supported by a research contract from Servicio Andaluz de Salud(SAS,B-0003-2017);FCD and LGS were supported by Nicolas Monardes(C-0032-2016,C-0028-2018)from Consejeria de Salud,cofunded by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional-FEDER,Madrid,Spain;DCC by FPU(FPU13/04211)from Ministerio de Educacion,Cultura y Deporte;This work was supported in part by a grant from Servicio Andaluz de Salud(PI-0173-2013).
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