Footnotes

• BS and AZR are joint first authors.

• J-CT and MHP are joint senior authors.

• Handling editor Josef S Smolen

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• Contributors All authors contributed to conception or design of this correspondence response; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published; and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.