Updates are available Correction dated 2021-12-02

Article History

Received: 20 November 2020

Accepted: 17 October 2021

First Online: 29 October 2021

Change Date: 2 December 2021

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42358-021-00231-2

Declarations

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: The study protocol was approved by the Kyoto University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Ethics Committee, and all procedures were performed in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, or comparable ethical standards. All patients provided written informed consent prior to participating in this study.

: Publication consent was acquired on the original consent form.

: The Department of Advanced Medicine for Rheumatic Diseases is supported by two local governments in Japan (Nagahama City, Shiga, and Toyooka City, Hyogo) and five pharmaceutical companies (Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., AYUMI Pharmaceutical Corporation, Asahi Kasei Corporation, and UCB Japan Co., Ltd.). MH has received grants and/or speaker fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly and Company, and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation. RU has received consulting fees from Eisai Co. Ltd., Sawai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., and CAC Croit Corporation. TF has received speaking fees and/or honoraria from AbbVie Inc., Astellas Pharma Inc., Asahi Kasei Corporation, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly and Company, Eisai Co., Ltd., Janssen, Kissei, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Pfizer, Sanofi, Taisho Toyama Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and UCB Japan Co., Ltd., and has received research grants from AbbVie Inc., AYUMI Pharmaceutical Corporation, Asahi Kasei Corporation, Astellas Pharma Inc., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd, Eli Lilly and Company, Eisai Co., Ltd., Kissei, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Pfizer, Nippon-Kayaku, Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and UCB Japan Co., Ltd. MTanaka has received research grants and/or speaker fees from AbbVie GK, Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation, Astellas Pharma Inc., AYUMI Pharmaceutical Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Pfizer Inc., UCB Japan Co., Ltd., Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Novartis Pharma K.K., and Taisho Pharma Co., Ltd. HI has received a research grant and/or speaker fee from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kyocera, and Asahi Kasei Corporation. TM has received research grants and/or speaker’s fees from Asahi Kasei Corporation, Astellas Pharma Inc., AYUMI Pharmaceutical Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Pfizer, and Sanofi. The above companies had no role in the study design, collection or analysis of data, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.