About the Authors

Fiona Maas

f.maas@umcg.nl

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Suzanne Arends

Affiliations Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Rheumatology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Freke R. Wink

Affiliation Rheumatology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Reinhard Bos

Affiliation Rheumatology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Hendrika Bootsma

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Elisabeth Brouwer

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Anneke Spoorenberg

Affiliations Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Rheumatology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

F. Maas: None declared; S. Arends: Grant/research support from Pfizer; F.R. Wink consultant for Abbvie; R. Bos: None declared; H. Bootsma: None declared; E. Brouwer: Grant/research support from Pfizer; A. Spoorenberg: Grant/research support from Abbvie, Pfizer, UCB, consultant for Abbvie, Pfizer, MSD, UCB, and Novartis. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AS SA EB HB. Data curation: AS FRW RB EB. Formal analysis: FM. Funding acquisition: AS SA. Investigation: FM AS SA. Methodology: FM AS SA. Project administration: AS SA HB. Resources: FM AS FRW RB EB. Supervision: AS SA HB. Validation: SA. Visualization: FM. Writing – original draft: FM.