Impact of Comorbidities on Mortality in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

• Michael Kreuter ,

  * E-mail: kreuter@uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliations Centre for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Translational Lung Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Svenja Ehlers-Tenenbaum,

  Affiliation Centre for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Karin Palmowski,

  Affiliation Centre for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Jacques Bruhwyler,

  Affiliation ECSOR Department of Biostatistics, Gembloux, Belgium

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• Ute Oltmanns,

  Affiliation Centre for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Thomas Muley,

  Affiliations Department of Translational Research, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Translational Lung Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Claus Peter Heussel,

  Affiliations Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Radiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Translational Lung Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Arne Warth,

  Affiliations Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Translational Lung Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Martin Kolb ,

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-senior authors.

  Affiliation McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Felix J. F. Herth

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-senior authors.

  Affiliations Centre for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Translational Lung Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

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