About the Authors
- Anke Hüls
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* E-mail: Anke.Huels@IUF-Duesseldorf.de
Affiliation IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Ursula Krämer
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Affiliation IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Monika Gappa
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Affiliation Marien Hospital Wesel, Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Wesel, Germany
- Christine Müller-Brandes
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Affiliation Medical School of Hanover, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hanover, Germany
- Tamara Schikowski
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Affiliation IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Andrea von Berg
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Affiliation Marien Hospital Wesel, Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Wesel, Germany
- Barbara Hoffmann
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Affiliations IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Antje Schuster
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Affiliation Heinrich-Heine University, University Children’s Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Matthias Wisbauer
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Affiliation Heinrich-Heine University, University Children’s Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Claudia Flexeder
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - erman Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
- Joachim Heinrich
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - erman Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany
- Holger Schulz
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - erman Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Munich, Germany
- Dietrich Berdel
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Affiliation Marien Hospital Wesel, Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Wesel, Germany
Competing Interests
The study received funding from GlaxoSmithKline GmbH & Co. KG, Aerocrine AB, MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH, AstraZeneca GmbH, Novartis Pharma GmbH, Astellas Pharma GmbH, Munich, Germany, Ndd Medizintechnik AG, Zürich, Switzerland, Lions Club Wesel, Mead Johnson and Nestlé companies. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: UK AvB DB JH HS. Performed the experiments: MG CMB AvB AS MW JH HS DB. Analyzed the data: AH. Wrote the paper: AH UK MG CMB TS AvB BH AS MW CF JH HS DB.