Xavier, Ricardo Machado https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6570-4533
Zerbini, Cristiano Augusto Freitas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6269-2354
Pollak, Daniel Feldman
Morales-Torres, Jorge Luis Alberto https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4206-0389
Chalem, Philippe
Restrepo, José Fernando Molina
Duhau, Javier Arnaldo
Amado, Jacqueline Rodríguez
Abello, Maurício
de la Vega, Maria Celina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1171-3519
Dávila, Adriana Pérez
Biegun, Priscila Martin
Arruda, Maysa Silva
Ramos-Remus, Cesar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4898-4219
Funding for this research was provided by:
AbbVie Farmaceutica Ltda
Article History
Received: 1 November 2018
Accepted: 21 October 2019
First Online: 9 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research was reviewed and approved by Independent Ethics Committee according to study site and responsible committees are listed in Additional file: Table S1. All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards from each country and with the Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent and authorization to use and/or disclose his/her anonymised health data was obtained from all participants.
: All authors consent to publish the manuscript in Advances in Rheumatology.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.