Reducing cardiovascular risk with immunomodulators: a randomised active comparator trial among patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

"Competing interests: DHS receives research support through his institution from Abbvie, Amgen, CorEvitas and Moderna. He receives royalties from UpToDate on unrelated chapters. JTG has been a consultant for AbbVie, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Company, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Gilead, Novartis in the last 3 years and received an unrestricted grant from Pfizer. Over the past 36 months, PMR received investigator-initiated research grant support from Novartis, Kowa, Amarin, Pfizer, Esperion, NHLBI, NCI and Operation Warp Speed; served as a consultant to Corvidia, Novartis, Flame, Agepha, Alynlam, IQVIA, R-Pharma, Horizon Therapeutics, Inflazome, AstraZeneca, Jannsen, Civi Biopharm, SOCAR, Novo Nordisk, Health Outlook, Omeicos, the Baim Institute, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Montai Health, Cardiol Therapeutics, the Peter Munk Institute (University of Toronto); and the Foundation Leducq (Paris, FR); and received non-monetary research support from the Pfizer Bristol Myers Squibb Alliance and from Quidel, Inc to conduct federally funded COVID-19 research. PMRo is also listed as a co-inventor on patents held by his institution, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. None of these conflicts relate to the current manuscript. JMB has nothing to declare."

"Funding: NIH-NIAMS U01-AR068043; Abbvie and Amgen supplied study drug."

"Trial registration number NCT02374021."