About the Authors

Erin J. Caraher

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin J. Caraher, Sophia Kwon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Sophia Kwon

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin J. Caraher, Sophia Kwon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Syed H. Haider

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

George Crowley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Audrey Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Minah Ebrahim

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Liqun Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Respiratory Medicine, PLA, Army General Hospital, Beijing, China

Lung-Chi Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Terry Gordon

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Mengling Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Population Health, Division of Biostatistics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

David J. Prezant

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Bureau of Health Services and Office of Medical Affairs, Fire Department of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine Division, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ann Marie Schmidt

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Pathology, Division of Endocrinology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Anna Nolan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anna.nolan@med.nyu.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Bureau of Health Services and Office of Medical Affairs, Fire Department of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DJP reports grants from CDC/NIOSH, during the conduct of the study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.