About the Authors

Tobias Boeselt

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Boeselt, Marc Spielmanns

tobias.boeselt@uni-marburg.de

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Marc Spielmanns

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Boeselt, Marc Spielmanns

Affiliations Faculty of Health, Department of Pneumology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, Medical Clinic and Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Leverkusen (April), Remigius Hospital, Leverkusen Opladen, Germany

Christoph Nell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Jan Hendrik Storre

Affiliations Department of Pneumology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Pneumology, Cologne Merheim Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Wolfram Windisch

Affiliations Department of Pneumology, Cologne Merheim Hospital, Cologne, Germany, Faculty of Health, Department of Pneumology, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany

Lena Magerhans

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Bjoern Beutel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Klaus Kenn

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany, Schoen Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, Schönau am Königssee, Germany

Timm Greulich

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Peter Alter

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Claus Vogelmeier

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Andreas Rembert Koczulla

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB MS. Performed the experiments: TB MS. Analyzed the data: CN PA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHS WW BB TG LM KK CV ARK. Wrote the paper: TB MS.