Treat-to-target recommendations in giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica.

"Competing interests: CDe has received consulting/speaker’s fees from Abbvie, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, Sparrow, Roche, Galapagos and Sanofi, all unrelated to this manuscript. He is an editorial board member of ARD. AK has received consultancy fees, honoraria and travel expenses from AbbVie, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Gilead, Janssen, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Novartis, UCB and Pfizer, all unrelated to this manuscript. He is an editorial board member of ARD. DA received grants, speaker fees, and/or consultancy fees from Abbvie, Amgen, Galapagos, Lilly, Janssen, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Sandoz and Sanofi. He is an editorial board member of ARD. MB has received consulting fees from AbbVie. DC has received speaker fees from Abiogen, BMS and GSK. MCC received consultancy and/or speaker fees from GSK, Vifor, Abbvie, Astra Zeneca and Janssen and a research grant form Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals. BD has received consultancies from Novartis, Abbvie, Roche and speaker agreements from Chugai. CDu has received consultancy or speaker fees and travel expenses from Abbvie, AOP Orphan, Astra-Zeneca, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Eli-Lilly, Janssen, Galapagos, Merck-Sharp-Dohme, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sandoz, UCB, Vifor and research support by Eli-Lilly, Pfizer, UCB, all unrelated to this manuscript. BH received speaker fees and/or consultancies from Abbvie, Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, BMS, Boehringer, Chugai, GSK, InflaRx, Janssen, MSD, Pfizer, Novartis, Phadia, Roche and Vifor. ELM has received consulting fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Horizon Therapeutics, Alvotech Inc; speaker fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim; royalties from UpToDate. SPM has received consultancy fees (Invex Therapeutics); advisory board fees (Invex therapeutics; Gensight) and speaker fees (Heidelberg engineering; Chugai-Roche Ltd; Allergan; Santen; Teva UK; Chiesi; and Santhera). All unrelated to this manuscript. LN has received consulting fees from AbbVie. CP is or has been the principal investigator of studies by AbbVie, Sanofi and Novartis and has received consulting/speaker’s fees from Vifor, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and Roche, all unrelated to this manuscript. CS has received consultancy fees from Abbvie, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Galapagos, Novartis, Pfizer and Roche and royalties from UpToDate. All unrelated to this manuscript. SES has received research support by Astra-Zeneca and has done provided unpaid consultancy for Sanofi. SES is supported by the Rheumatology Research Foundation RISE pilot award and Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation Robert A Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Award, outside of the submitted work. WAS has received consultancy fees, honoraria and travel expenses from Abbvie, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chugai, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Medac, Novartis, Roche, and Sanofi and is principal investigator in trials sponsored by Abbvie, Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Roche and Sanofi. PS has received consultancy fees from Amgen and Janssen and royalties from UpToDate, all unrelated to this manuscript. JSS received grants to his institution from Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Lilly, Novartis and Roche and provided expert advice for, or had symposia speaking engagements with, AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Astro, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celltrion, Chugai, Gilead, Janssen, Lilly, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis-Sandoz, Pfizer, R-Pharm, Roche, Samsung, Sanofi and UCB. He is the editor in chief of ARD. JT has received consultancy or speaker fees Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Novartis, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Astra-Zeneca, Janssen, Abbvie, Eli-Lilly. All unrelated to this manuscript. CET-G has received consultancy fees, honoraria and travel expenses from Abbvie, BMS, Boehringer Ingelheim, Biopas, Janssen, Pfizer, Pharmalab, Roche, all unrelated to this manuscript. FB has received consultancy fees, honoraria and travel expenses from Abbvie, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche and Sanofi, all unrelated to this manuscript. He is an editorial board member of ARD. EH, LE, AA, SA, PCG, AH, TAK and MW declare no competing interests."

"Funding: Funding was provided by AbbVie (ISM-51500)."