About the Authors
- Kathrin Kahnert
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* E-mail: kathrin.kahnert@med.uni-muenchen.de
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany
- Tanja Lucke
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Affiliation Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Rudolf M. Huber
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany
- Jürgen Behr
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany
- Frank Biertz
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Affiliation Institute for Biostatistics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Anja Vogt
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Affiliation Stoffwechselambulanz, Klinik und Poliklinik der Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Henrik Watz
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Affiliation Pulmonary Research Institute at LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Airway Research Center North, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Grosshansdorf, Germany
- Peter Alter
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany
- Sebastian Fähndrich
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
- Robert Bals
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
- Rolf Holle
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Affiliation Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH) - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Neuherberg, Germany
- Stefan Karrasch
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Affiliations Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Sandra Söhler
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Affiliation ASCONET Study Coordination Office, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Margarethe Wacker
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Affiliation Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH) - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Neuherberg, Germany
- Joachim H. Ficker
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, General Hospital Nuernberg, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuernberg, Germany
- Klaus G. Parhofer
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Claus Vogelmeier
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany
- Rudolf A. Jörres
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Affiliation Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
- on behalf of the COSYCONET consortium
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¶Membership of the COSYCONET consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Dr. Bals reports grants from Grifols, personal fees from GSK, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, outside the submitted work; Dr. Ficker reports grants from Cosyconet study supported by Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung BMBF, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Boehringer, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from CSL-Behring, personal fees from GSK, personal fees from AstraZeneca, personal fees from Roche, personal fees and non-financial support from Novartis, from null, outside the submitted work; Dr. Fähndrich reports grants from CSL Behring, grants from Grifols, grants from AstraZeneca, outside the submitted work; Dr. Holle reports grants from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant number 01GI0882), during the conduct of the study; Dr. Karrasch reports grants from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with grant number 01GI0882, during the conduct of the study; Dr. Wacker reports grants from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant number 01GI0882), during the conduct of the study;Dr. Vogelmeier reports personal fees from Almirall, personal fees from AstraZeneca, personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Chiesi, grants and personal fees from GlaxoSmithKline, grants and personal fees from Grifols, personal fees from Mundipharma, personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Takeda, personal fees from Cipla, personal fees from Berlin Chemie/Menarini, outside the submitted work; Dr. Jörres reports grants from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant number 01GI0882), during the conduct of the study, as well as Grants from MundiPharma, GSK and Lufthansa that are not related to the present work. The rest of the authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: KK RAJ TL RMH JB FB AV HW SF RB CV PA RH. Data curation: KK RAJ TL SS FB. Formal analysis: KK RAJ PA. Investigation: KK RAJ HW RB CV. Methodology: KK RAJ PA. Project administration: KK RAJ. Supervision: RAJ CV. Validation: FB RH MW. Visualization: KK RAJ. Writing – original draft: KK RAJ. Writing – review & editing: TL RMH JB AV HW PA SF RH SK SS MW JHF KGP CV FB.