About the Authors

Ruth Byrne

Affiliation Divison of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Eva Rath

Affiliation Divison of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Anastasiya Hladik

Affiliation Divison of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Birgit Niederreiter

Affiliation Divison of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Michael Bonelli

Affiliation Divison of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Sophie Frantal

Affiliation Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Josef S. Smolen

Affiliation Divison of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Clemens Scheinecker

clemens.scheinecker@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Divison of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB ER BN JSS CS. Performed the experiments: RB ER AH BN MB CS. Analyzed the data: RB ER AH BN SF CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF. Wrote the paper: RB JSS CS.