About the Authors

Hadas Ben-Eli

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

hadasben@hadassah.org.il

Affiliations Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Ophthalmology Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel

Abraham Solomon

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Doron J. Aframian

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

Affiliation Department of Oral Medicine, Sedation and Maxillofacial Imaging and Sjogren’s Syndrome Center, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Eldad Ben-Chetrit

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Rheumatology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Dror Mevorach

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Geffen Kleinstern

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Tim Waterboer

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Martina Willhauck-Fleckenstein

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Michael Pawlita

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Ora Paltiel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Hematology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.