About the Authors
- Lorenz Barleon
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* E-mail: L.Barleon@diak-ka.de
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Jochen Wahl
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Peter Morfeld
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Affiliations Institute for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany, Institute for Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment of Evonik Industries, Essen, Germany
- Claudia Deters
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Andrea Lichtmeß
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Sibylle Haas-Brähler
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Affiliation Occupational Health, Evonik Industries, Hanau, Germany
- Uta Müller
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Affiliation Occupational Health, Evonik Industries, Essen, Germany
- Rolf Breitstadt
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Affiliation Occupational Health, Evonik Industries, Essen, Germany
- Norbert Pfeiffer
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Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Competing Interests
One or more authors have an affiliation to the commercial funders of this research study (Evonik Industries). The corresponding author declares, on behalf of all authors, that there are no competing interests. Evonik Industries provided an unrestricted grant for this study. Evonik Industries provided some of the equipment, qualified personnel, transportation and accommodation. The interest of Evonik Industries was to supply preventive health care for their employees. Evonik Industries have no business activity in ophthalmology. Apart from the co-authors, the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There is no conflict of interest of the sponsor or the members of Evonik Industries. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LB JW SH RB UM NP. Performed the experiments: LB CD AL. Analyzed the data: LB JW PM SH. Wrote the paper: LB JW PM SH NP.