About the Authors

Franziska Kaestner

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

Current address: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fachkliniken Wangen, Wangen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital of Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Frederik Seiler

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital of Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Daniel Rapp

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Neurology, RKU University and Rehabilitation Clinics Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Elisabeth Eckert

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute and Outpatient Clinic of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Johannes Müller

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute and Outpatient Clinic of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Carlos Metz

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital of Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Robert Bals

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital of Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Hans Drexler

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute and Outpatient Clinic of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Philipp M. Lepper

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

philipp.lepper@uks.eu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital of Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Thomas Göen

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

Affiliation Institute and Outpatient Clinic of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

FK received travelling fees from Getinge Deutschland GmbH; PML received travelling fees from Getinge Deutschland GmbH, and speaker fees from Mitsubishi Pharma, and CSL Behring. The other authors declared no conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.