About the Authors

Kosuke Ebina

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

k-ebina@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Motomu Hashimoto

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine for Rheumatic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Wataru Yamamoto

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Advanced Medicine for Rheumatic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Health Information Management, Kurashiki Sweet Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan

Toru Hirano

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Ryota Hara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation The Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan

Masaki Katayama

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Akira Onishi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Koji Nagai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (IV), Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

Yonsu Son

Roles Data curation

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Hideki Amuro

Roles Data curation

Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Keiichi Yamamoto

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Wakayama Medical University Hospital, Wakayama, Japan

Yuichi Maeda

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Koichi Murata

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Advanced Medicine for Rheumatic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Sadao Jinno

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Tohru Takeuchi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine (IV), Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan

Makoto Hirao

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Atsushi Kumanogoh

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Hideki Yoshikawa

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

This study was funded by UCB Japan. KE received a research grant and/or speaker fee from Abbvie, Asahi-Kasei, Astellas, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai, Daiichi Sankyo, Eisai, Eli Lilly, Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Ono Pharmaceutical, Pfizer, Taisho-toyama, and UCB Japan. MH and KM are affiliated with a department that is financially supported by four pharmaceutical companies (Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Chugai, Ayumi, and UCB Japan) and the city government (Nagahama City). MH received a research grant and/or speaker fee from Astellas, Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Eisai, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. TH received a research grant from Astellas, and a speaker fee from Astellas, Chugai, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Takeda. KM received a speaking fee, and/or consulting fee from Eisai. YM received a research grant and/or speaker fee from Eli Lilly, Chugai, Pfize, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Mitsubishi-Tanabe. TT is affiliated with a department that is financially supported by six pharmaceutical companies (Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Chugai, Ayumi, Astellas, Eisai, and Takeda). TT received a research grant from Chugai, Cover Letter and a speaker fee from Astellas, Chugai, Eisai, Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ayumi, Daiichi Sankyo, Eisai, Takeda, and Asahi-Kasei. MH received a speaker fee from Astellas, Ono Pharmacetical, Eli Lilly, Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Pfizer, Ayumi, and Takeda. AK received a research grant and/or speaker fee from Mitsubishi-Tanabe, Chugai, Eisai, Asahi-Kasei, Astellas, Abbvie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ono Pharmaceutical, Astellas, and Pfizer. HY received a research grant from Chugai, Daiichi Sankyo, and Pfizer. WY, RH, MK, AO, KN, YS, HA, KY, and SJ have no financial conflicts of interest to disclose concerning this manuscript. These companies had no role in the study design, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.