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Article History

Received: 30 January 2024

Accepted: 2 March 2024

First Online: 10 April 2024

Declarations

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: JD, CLM, BF, MD, CGV declare that they have no competing interests relevant to this study. Benjamin Granger has received consultancy fees from MSD, and Boston scientific. Robert Landewé: Speaker fees/honoraria or research support from AbbVie, Eli-Lilly, Galapagos, Gilead, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer and UCB. Anna Molto: Speaker honoraria/participated in advisory boards for AbbVie, Biogen, Janssen, Lilly, Gilead, Galapagos, Pfizer and UCB; Research grants from Pfizer and UCB. Uta Kiltz: Dr. Kiltz has received grant and research support and consultancy fees from AbbVie, Amgen, Biocad, Biogen, BMS, Chugai, Eli Lilly, Fresenius, Gilead, Grünenthal, GSK, Hexal, Janssen, MSD, Novartis, onkowissen.de, Pfizer, Roche, UCB and Viatris. Laure Gossec: research grants: AbbVie, Biogen, Lilly, Novartis, UCB; consulting fees: AbbVie, Amgen, BMS, Celltrion, Galapagos, Janssen, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Sandoz, UCB.

: Ethical approvals were obtained from CPP Ile de France III for DESIR (2007, number P070302), COMEDSPA (2014, number 2014-A01215-42), and COMOSPA (2012, number 2012-A01357-36). For PERSPA, ethics approvals were obtained from local ethical committees. Argentina: Comité de Docencia e Investigaciones Hospital de Clinicas Dr. Nicolás Avellaneda; Canada: Health Reserach Ethics Board University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services; Chile: Comité ético-Científico Servicio Salud Metropolitano Sur Oriente; China: Ethics committee Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University; Colombia: Comité de Ética en Investigación del Hospital Militar Central; Egypt: Research Ethics Committee Cairo University Faculty of Medicine; France: Comité de protection des personnes Ile de France III; Germany: Ethics Committee from the medical council Westphalia-Lippe and the Westphalian Wilhelms University; Hungary: Ethics Committee Semmelweis Egyetem Hospital; India: NHL Institutional Review Board (NHLIRB). SMT NHL Municipal Medical College; Italy: Comitato Etico Pavia; Japan: Ethics Committee St Luke’s International University; Lebanon: Comité d’éthique Hotel-Dieu de France; Mexico: Comité de Investigación Hospital General de México Eduardo Liceaga; Morocco: Comité d’Éthique pour la Recherche Biomédicale de Rabat; The Netherlands: Commissie Medische Ethiek Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum; Portugal: Comissão de Ética para a Saúde do Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental; Romania: Comisia de Etica UMF Iuliu Hatieganu Cluj Napoca; South Korea: Ethics Committee Chonnam National University Medical School from Gwangju; Spain: Comité de Ética de la Investigación con Medicamentos, Hospital Universitario La Paz; Taiwan: Chang Gung Medical Foundation Institutional Review Board; Turkey: Marmara University School of Medicine Clinical Research Ethics Committee; USA: Metrohealth Institutional Revew Board. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects before enrollment in all studies.

: This work was previously presented in the ACR congress in 2023: Drouet J, López Medina C, Granger B, Fautrel B, Molto A, Gaujoux Viala C, Kiltz U, Dougados M, Gossec L. Disease Activity and Widespread Pain Are the 2 Key Drivers of Global Health in Axial Spondyloarthritis, with Similar Findings in Different Patient Populations: An Analysis of 4 Databases and 6064 Patients [abstract]. <i>Arthritis Rheumatol.</i> 2023; 75 (suppl 9). . Accessed February 22, 2024.