Karpouzas, George A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1065-1563
Ormseth, Sarah R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0565-5255
Van Riel, Piet https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7719-8906
Myasoedova, Elena https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2006-1436
Gonzalez-Gay, Miguel A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7924-7406
Corrales, Alfonso https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9519-7798
Rantapaa-Dahlqvist, Solbritt https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8259-3863
Sfikakis, Petros https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5484-2930
Dessein, Patrick https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9357-4630
Hitchon, Carol A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-3268
Pascual-Ramos, Virginia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-498X
Yanez, Irazu Contreras https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6711-2275
Colunga-Pedraza, Iris Jazmín https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2786-5843
Galarza-Delgado, Dionicio Angel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9714-2109
Azpiri-Lopez, Jose https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2638-9590
Semb, Anne Grete https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2730-2853
Misra, Durga Prasanna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5035-7396
Kitas, George D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0828-6176
Hauge, Ellen M. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2562-9174
Funding for this research was provided by:
Pfizer (68633259)
Article History
Received: 31 December 2024
Accepted: 18 March 2025
First Online: 18 April 2025
Declarations
:
: This study was approved by the institutional review boards of all participating centers and performed in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. These included the Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center Institutional Review Boards, CMO Arnhem Nijmegen, Dudley Local Research Ethics Committee, Office of the Oslo University Hospital’s Privacy and Data Protection Officer, Ethics Committee at the University Hospital of Umeå, John F Wolfe MD. Human Subjects Committee at Harbor-UCLA (project number of 13564-01, approval date 8/26/2009), Laiko Hospital Institutional Review Board (Athens, Greece), Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, University of Manitoba Health Research Ethics Board and the Manitoba Health Information Privacy Committee, Ethics Committee of Cantabria for Hospital Universitario de Valdecilla in Santander (Spain), Comites de Ética e Investigación del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, and Arthritis Center Twente Institutional Review Board.
: Informed consent was obtained from participants.
: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.