About the Authors

Miguel Á. González-Gay

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

miguelaggay@hotmail.com (MÁG-G); iferrazamaro@hotmail.com (IF-A)

‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

Affiliations Division of Rheumatology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain, Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Fuensanta Gómez-Bernal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Central Laboratory, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

Juan C. Quevedo-Abeledo

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Cristina Almeida-Santiago

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Elena Heras-Recuero

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain

Arantxa Torres-Roselló

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain

Antonia de Vera-González

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Central Laboratory, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

Beatriz Tejera-Segura

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Insular, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Enrique García-Barrera

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain

Teresa Blázquez-Sánchez

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain

Luisa M. Villar

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain

Javier Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain

Raquel Largo

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain

Iván Ferraz-Amaro

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

miguelaggay@hotmail.com (MÁG-G); iferrazamaro@hotmail.com (IF-A)

‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, Spain, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest. Nevertheless, I.F.-A. would like to acknowledge that he has received grants/research supports from Abbott, MSD, Janssen, and Roche, as well as consultation fees from company-sponsored peakers’ bureaus associated with Abbott, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Celgene, and MSD. Prof. M.A.G. has received research supports from GSK as well as consultation fees/participation from company-sponsored speakers’ bureaus associated to GSK, Otsuka, Amgen and Sanofi.