About the Authors

Olena Oliveira

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

id7080@alunos.uminho.pt

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B, PT Government Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal, EPIUnit, Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Rita Gaio

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Centre of Mathematics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Margarida Correia-Neves

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B, PT Government Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Teresa Rito

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

Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B, PT Government Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal, Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Raquel Duarte

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations EPIUnit, Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Clinical Epidemiology, Predictive Medicine and Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Pulmonology Unit, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho EPE, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.