About the Authors
- Tanja Lucke
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tanja Lucke, Ronald Herrera
* E-mail: tanja.lucke@med.uni-muenchen.de
Affiliations Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital LMU Munich, München, Germany, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich, DZL, German Center for Lung Research, München, Germany
- Ronald Herrera
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tanja Lucke, Ronald Herrera
Affiliations Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital LMU Munich, München, Germany, Center for International Health, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, München, Germany
- Margarethe Wacker
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Affiliation German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Neuherberg, Germany
- Rolf Holle
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Affiliation German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Neuherberg, Germany
- Frank Biertz
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Affiliation Institute for Biostatistics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Dennis Nowak
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Affiliations Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital LMU Munich, München, Germany, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich, DZL, German Center for Lung Research, München, Germany
- Rudolf M. Huber
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Affiliations Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich, DZL, German Center for Lung Research, München, Germany, Thoracic Oncology Center Munich (TOM), University Hospital LMU Munich, München, Germany
- Sandra Söhler
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Medical Centre Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
- Claus Vogelmeier
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Medical Centre Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
- Joachim H. Ficker
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Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, Klinikum Nuremberg, Nürnberg, Germany, Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Nürnberg, Germany
- Harald Mückter
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Affiliation Walther-Straub-Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, München, Germany
- Rudolf A. Jörres
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Affiliations Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital LMU Munich, München, Germany, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich, DZL, German Center for Lung Research, München, Germany
- COSYCONET-Consortium
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¶Membership of the COSYCONET-Consortium is listed in the Supporting Information (
S1 COSYCONET Consortium ).
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: TL R. Herrera MW HM RAJ. Formal analysis: TL R. Herrera RAJ. Investigation: TL R. Herrera HM RAJ. Methodology: TL R. Herrera MW HM RAJ. Resources: SS DN RMH MW R. Holle FB CV. Software: TL R. Herrera. Supervision: DN RMH CV JHF RAJ. Validation: FB. Visualization: TL. Writing – original draft: TL RAJ. Writing – review & editing: MW R. Holle FB DN RMH SS CV JHF.