About the Authors

Thao H. P. Nguyen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

nhpthao00@gmail.com

Affiliations Lillehammer Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Lillehammer, Norway, University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo, Norway

Morten Wang Fagerland

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Support Services, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Gia Deyab

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen, Norway

Gunnbjørg Hjeltnes

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway

Ivana Hollan

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

Affiliations Beitostølen Health and Sport Centre, Beitostølen, Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

Mark W. Feinberg

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gro Ø Eilertsen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Medicine, UIT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Knut Mikkelsen

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Volvat Medical Center, Lillehammer, Norway

Stefan Agewall

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. We confirm that “This (AbbVie) does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials”.