About the Authors

Irene Brüske

brueske@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Elisabeth Thiering

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Joachim Heinrich

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany

Katharina Huster

Affiliation Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Clinical Centre, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Dennis Nowak

Affiliations Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Clinical Centre, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DN IB JH. Performed the experiments: IB KH DN. Analyzed the data: ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ET. Wrote the manuscript: IB.