About the Authors

Kenji Saito

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shuhei Yoshida

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

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Honoka Ebina

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Masayuki Miyata

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

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Japanese Red Cross Fukushima Hospital, Fukushima, Japan

Eiji Suzuki

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

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Ohta Nishinouchi General Hospital Foundation, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Takashi Kanno

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

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Ohta Nishinouchi General Hospital Foundation, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Yuya Sumichika

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Haruki Matsumoto

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Jumpei Temmoku

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Yuya Fujita

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Naoki Matsuoka

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Tomoyuki Asano

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shuzo Sato

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Kiyoshi Migita

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

migita@fmu.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Rheumatology, St. Francis Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: K.M. has received research grants from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Novartis Pharma K.K. The above-mentioned pharmaceutical companies were not involved in the study design, data collection and analysis, manuscript writing, and manuscript submission. Rest of the authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.