A preliminary report on the feasibility of regression-based alignment of diagnostic thresholds for harmonized use of international classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome

• Yukari Motoki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yukari Motoki, Risa Kaneshige

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ^* ymotoki@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0509-8364

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• Risa Kaneshige ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yukari Motoki, Risa Kaneshige

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7255-4705

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• Yuichiro Fujieda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Kenji Oku,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Eriko Morishita,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-3363

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• Masahiro Ieko,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Sapporo University of Health Sciences, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Tatsuya Atsumi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Kiyoshi Ichihara,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6039-4537

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• Junzo Nojima

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

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