About the Authors

Astrid Blondeel

Contributed equally to this work with: Astrid Blondeel, Heleen Demeyer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Clinical Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Heleen Demeyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Astrid Blondeel, Heleen Demeyer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Clinical Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Wim Janssens

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Aging (CHROMETA) – BREATHE, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Thierry Troosters

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

thierry.troosters@kuleuven.be

Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Clinical Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.