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About the Authors
- Cynthia S. Crowson
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* E-mail: crowson@mayo.edu
Affiliation Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Sciences Research and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Silvia Rollefstad
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Affiliation Preventive Cardio-Rheuma Clinic, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- George D. Kitas
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Affiliation Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, West Midlands, United Kingdom
- Piet L. C. M. van Riel
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatic Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Sherine E. Gabriel
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Current address: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
Affiliation Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Sciences Research and Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Anne Grete Semb
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Affiliation Preventive Cardio-Rheuma Clinic, Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- On behalf of A Trans-Atlantic Cardiovascular Risk Consortium for Rheumatoid Arthritis (ATACC-RA)
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¶Membership in the ATACC-RA is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CSC, SR, SEG: nothing to disclose. GDK: MSD, UCB, Abbvie, Pfizer, BMS, Novartis. PLCMR: Abbott, BMS, MSD, Pfizer, Roche, Eli-Lilly, Galapagos, UCB, Celltrion. AGS: Merck/Schering- Plough, UCB, Abbott, Pfizer/Wyeth, BMS, Eli-Lilly. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: GDK PLCMR SEG AGS. Data curation: CSC. Formal analysis: CSC. Funding acquisition: GDK PLCMR SEG AGS. Investigation: CSC SR GDK PLCMR SEG AGS. Methodology: CSC. Project administration: CSC SR GDK PLCMR SEG AGS. Resources: CSC SR GDK PLCMR SEG AGS. Software: CSC. Supervision: CSC SR GDK PLCMR SEG AGS. Validation: CSC. Visualization: CSC. Writing – original draft: CSC. Writing – review & editing: CSC SR GDK PLCMR SEG AGS.