Funding for this research was provided by:
Arthritis Research UK (20380)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2020
Accepted: 13 August 2020
First Online: 19 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: A.E. Litwic, L.D. Westbury and K.A. Ward declare that they have no conflict of interest. C Cooper reports personal fees (outside the submitted work) from Amgen, Danone, Eli Lilly, GSK, Kyowa Kirin, Medtronic, Merck, Nestle, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Servier, Shire, Takeda and UCB. EM Dennison reports personal fees (outside the submitted work) from Pfizer Healthcare and UCB.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable.