1. Status of tapering in the first year of follow-up.
Status of tapering in the first year of follow-up. (A, B) Overview of tapering status per time point. Results are shown as percentages of patients. According to protocol, the doses were halved every 3 months, starting at T0, and after 6 months, patients could stop their tapered medication when they were still in a controlled disease state. Detailed numbers per time point are given in online supplementary table S2. (C) Tapering status after 12 months. Columns indicate the percentage of patients that tapered medication until the indicated amount of the original dose. (D) Overview of glucocorticoids and NSAID use in the first year of follow-up. csDMARD, conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; NSAIDs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
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