About the Authors

César Garriga

Contributed equally to this work with: César Garriga, Sandra Manzanares-Laya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cesar.garriga-fuentes@ndorms.ox.ac.uk (CG); smanzana@aspb.cat (SM)

Current address: Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences. University of Oxford. Headington. Oxford. Oxfordshire. United Kingdom.

Affiliations Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Spanish Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP/PEAC), National Centre for Epidemiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Sandra Manzanares-Laya

Contributed equally to this work with: César Garriga, Sandra Manzanares-Laya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cesar.garriga-fuentes@ndorms.ox.ac.uk (CG); smanzana@aspb.cat (SM)

Affiliations Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Patricia García de Olalla

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Pilar Gorrindo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Sabela Lens

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona. IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain

Ricard Solà

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

María Martínez-Rebollar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Clinic- August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Montserrat Laguno

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Clinic- August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Jordi Navarro

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Hospital Vall de Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Torras

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBERehd), Madrid, Spain

Mercè Gurguí

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

María-Jesús Barberá

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sexually Transmitted Infections Unit, Hospital Vall de Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Josep Quer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Liver Unit, Internal Medicine, Laboratory of Malalties Hepàtiques, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca-Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron, (VHIR-HUVH), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Eva Masdeu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Pere Simón

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Miriam Ros

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Anna de Andrés

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Joan A. Caylà

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. Lens reports personal fees from Gilead, Janssen, and Abbvie, outside the submitted work. Dr. Solà reports receiving consulting fees from Bristol Myers Squibb, Abbvie and Jansen, and lecture fees from Abbvie, outside the submitted work. Dr. Navarro reports personal fees from Gilead, JanssenCilag, MSD, and Abbvie, outside the submitted work. Dr. Torras reports personal fees from Gilead, Abbvie, and MSD, outside the submitted work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.