About the Authors

Richard A. Parker

richard.parker@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Weir

Affiliation Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Noah Rubio

Affiliation Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative (ELEGI), Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Roberto Rabinovich

Affiliation Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative (ELEGI), Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Hilary Pinnock

Affiliation Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Janet Hanley

Affiliations Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh Napier University School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lucy McCloughan

Affiliation e-Health Research Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ellen M. Drost

Affiliation Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative (ELEGI), Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Leandro C. Mantoani

Affiliation Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative (ELEGI), Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

William MacNee

Affiliation Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative (ELEGI), Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Brian McKinstry

Affiliations Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, e-Health Research Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RAP CJW RR HP JH LM EMD WM BM. Data curation: RAP NR LCM. Formal analysis: RP NR RR LCM. Funding acquisition: BM HP WM RR CJW JH. Investigation: NR RR LM EMD LCM. Methodology: RAP CJW. Project administration: RAP CJW RR LM BM. Software: RAP. Supervision: CJW RR BM. Validation: NR RR LCM. Writing – original draft: RAP. Writing – review & editing: RAP CJW RR HP JH LM EMD LCM WM BM.