About the Authors

Paula Morisco de Sá

Contributed equally to this work with: Paula Morisco de Sá, Hermano Albuquerque Castro, Agnaldo José Lopes, Pedro Lopes de Melo

Affiliation Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Faculty of Engineering and BioVasc Research Laboratory, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hermano Albuquerque Castro

Contributed equally to this work with: Paula Morisco de Sá, Hermano Albuquerque Castro, Agnaldo José Lopes, Pedro Lopes de Melo

Affiliation National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Agnaldo José Lopes

Contributed equally to this work with: Paula Morisco de Sá, Hermano Albuquerque Castro, Agnaldo José Lopes, Pedro Lopes de Melo

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences, Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pedro Lopes de Melo

Contributed equally to this work with: Paula Morisco de Sá, Hermano Albuquerque Castro, Agnaldo José Lopes, Pedro Lopes de Melo

plopes@uerj.br

Affiliation Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Faculty of Engineering and BioVasc Research Laboratory, Institute of Biology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PMS HAC AJL PLM. Data curation: PMS HAC AJL PLM. Formal analysis: PMS HAC AJL PLM. Funding acquisition: HAC AJL PLM. Investigation: PMS. Methodology: PMS HAC AJL PLM. Project administration: AJL PLM. Resources: HAC AJL PLM. Software: PLM. Supervision: HAC AJL PLM. Validation: PMS HAC AJL PLM. Writing – original draft: PMS HAC AJL PLM. Writing – review & editing: PMS HAC AJL PLM.