About the Authors

Julia Dratva

julia.dratva@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Dept. Epidemiology and Public Health, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Elisabeth Zemp

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Dept. Epidemiology and Public Health, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Shyamali C. Dharmage

Affiliation Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Simone Accordini

Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Luc Burdet

Affiliation Hôpital Intercantonal de la Broye, Payerne, Switzerland

Thorarinn Gislason

Affiliation Dept. of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep, Landspitali University Hospital Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland

Joachim Heinrich

Affiliations Helmholtz Center Munich, National Research Centre for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, University Hospital Munich, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine and German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany

Christer Janson

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory Medicine & Allergology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Deborah Jarvis

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Roberto de Marco

Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Dan Norbäck

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Marco Pons

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Regional Hospital of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

Francisco Gómez Real

Affiliations Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Jordi Sunyer

Affiliation Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain

Simona Villani

Affiliation University of Pavia, Faculty of Medicine, Dept. of Public Health, Neurosciences, Experimental and Legal Medicine, Pavia, Italy

Nicole Probst-Hensch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Dept. Epidemiology and Public Health, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Cecilie Svanes

Affiliations Bergen Respiratory Research Group, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Occupational Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD CS SD. Performed the experiments: EZ SD SA LB TG JH CJ DJ RM DN MP JS SV NP CS. Analyzed the data: JD CS. Wrote the paper: JD EZ SD SA LB TG JH CJ DJ RM DN MP JS SV NP CS FGR.