About the Authors

Cosetta Minelli

cosetta.minelli1@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, NHLI, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Gianluca Baio

Affiliation Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

CM is senior investigator in the ALEC Study funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 633212. GB is partially funded by a research grant sponsored by Mapi, a consultancy company working in the area of health economic evaluation. CM is a member of the PLOS Medicine editorial board.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: CM GB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CM GB. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: CM GB.