Baseline high-sensitivity C-reactive protein predicts the risk of incident ankylosing spondylitis: Results of a community-based prospective study

• Jinmei Su,

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

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

  ⨯
• Liufu Cui,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China

  ⨯
• Wenhao Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China

  ⨯
• Huijing Shi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China

  ⨯
• Cheng Jin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China, Department of Nutritional Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  ⨯
• Rong Shu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China

  ⨯
• Hongfen Li,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Central Laboratory, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China

  ⨯
• Xiaofeng Zeng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofeng Zeng, Shouling Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zengxfpumc@163.com (XZ); drwusl@163.com (SW)

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3883-2318

  ⨯
• Shouling Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofeng Zeng, Shouling Wu

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

  * E-mail: zengxfpumc@163.com (XZ); drwusl@163.com (SW)

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China

  ⨯
• Xiang Gao

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

  Affiliation Department of Nutritional Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  ⨯