About the Authors

Francesco Carubbi

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Carubbi, Alessia Alunno

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Rheumatology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Italy, Department of Medicine, ASL1 Avezzano-Sulmona-L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

Alessia Alunno

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Carubbi, Alessia Alunno

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Paola Cipriani

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Gino Coletti

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Pathology Unit, Biomedical Department, ASL1 Avezzano-Sulmona-L’Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Barbara Bigerna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Haematology, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Mirko Manetti

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Anatomy and Histology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Paola Di Benedetto

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Onelia Bistoni

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Gianluca Cipolloni

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Pathology Unit, Biomedical Department, ASL1 Avezzano-Sulmona-L’Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Vasiliki Liakouli

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Piero Ruscitti

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Elena Bartoloni

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Roberto Giacomelli

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

roberto.giacomelli@cc.univaq.it

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Roberto Gerli

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.