Antirheumatic therapy is associated with reduced complement activation in rheumatoid arthritis

• Thao H. P. Nguyen ,

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

  * E-mail: nhpthao00@gmail.com

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2597-4031

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• Ingrid Hokstad,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory medicine, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway

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• 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

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• Tom Eirik Mollnes,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Research Laboratory, Nordland Hospital, Bodø, and Faculty of Health Sciences, K.G. Jebsen TREC, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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• Ivana Hollan,

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

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

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• 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

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• Gunnbjørg Hjeltnes,

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

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

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• Gro Ø. Eilertsen,

  Roles 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

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• Knut Mikkelsen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Volvat Medical Center, Lillehammer, Norway

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• 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

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