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"Conflict of Interest FF received consulting fees from Amgen and Abbvie and lecturer fees from Janssen and Pfizer. AC received lecturer fees from Takeda and a sponsorship from Bracco. MV served as a consultant for Abbvie, MSD, Takeda, Janssen-Cilag, and Celgene. He received lecturer fees from Abbvie, Ferring, Takeda, MSD, Janssen-Cilag, and Zambon. MA received consulting fees from Nikkiso Europe, Mundipharma, Janssen, Abbvie, Ferring, Galapagos, and Pfizer. GF served as a consultant and advisory board member for Takeda, Abbvie, Janssen, Pfizer, Celltrion, Sandoz, AlfaSigma, Samsung Bioepis, Amgen, Roche, Ferring, Mylan, and Galapagos. SD has served as a speaker, consultant, and advisory board member for Schering Plough, Abbott [AbbVie] Laboratories, Merck and Co., UCB Pharma, Ferring, Cellerix, Millenium Takeda, Nycomed, Pharmacosmos, Actelion, Alfa Wasserman, Genentech, Grunenthal, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, Vifor, and Johnson and Johnson. FCa has served as consultant for Mundipharma, AbbVie, MSD, Takeda, Janssen, Roche, and Celgene; received lecture fees from AbbVie, Ferring, Takeda, Allergy Therapeutics, and Janssen; and received unrestricted research grants from Giuliani, SOFAR, MS&D, Takeda, Pfizer, and AbbVie. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare."

"Funding This study was part-funded by Italy’s Ministry of Health and the current IRCSS research programme."