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Accepted: 14 July 2024

First Online: 6 August 2024

Declarations

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: Open access funding provided by Tel Aviv University. AbbVie Inc. (North Chicago, Illinois, USA) funded the research. AbbVie and Maccabi participated in the study design, research, analysis, data collection, interpretation of the data, review and approval of the manuscript and publication.

: F. Faccin is a full-time AbbVie employee and may own AbbVie stock and/or options. V. Rosenberg, G. Chodick, and G.O. Gendelman declare that they have no conflict of interest. H. Amital received consultant fees from AbbVie for this project. After completion of the manuscript, G. Chodick changed his affiliation within Maccabi Healthcare Services, and his new affiliation is: Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel. His other affiliation, of Tel Aviv university, remains the same.

: The study was conducted in accordance with the protocol, applicable regulations, and guidelines governing clinical study conduct and the ethical principles that have their origin in the Declaration of Helsinki. The independent ethics committee and institutional review board, MHS Institutional Review Board, approved the study protocol and related documents (approval number 0108-18-BBL, 18 December 2018). MHS’s IRB waived the requirement to obtain any informed consent for this secondary analysis of existing data.

: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this article, take responsibility for the integrity of the work, and have given their approval for this version to be published. No honoraria or payments were made for authorship.

: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available because the data that support the findings of this study originate from Maccabi Healthcare Services and restrictions apply to the availability of these data. Due to restrictions, these data can be accessed only by request to the authors and/or Maccabi Healthcare Services.

: Not applicable.

: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by V. Rosenberg and Drs. Amital, Chodick, and Gendelman. The first draft of the manuscript was written by V. Rosenberg and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.