Systematic Analysis of Self-Reported Comorbidities in Large Cohort Studies – A Novel Stepwise Approach by Evaluation of Medication

• Tanja Lucke ,

  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

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• Ronald Herrera ,

  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

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• Margarethe Wacker,

  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

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• Rolf Holle,

  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

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• Frank Biertz,

  Affiliation Institute for Biostatistics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Dennis Nowak,

  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

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• Rudolf M. Huber,

  Affiliations Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich, DZL, German Center for Lung Research, München, Germany, Thoracic Oncology Center Munich (TOM), University Hospital LMU Munich, München, Germany

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• Sandra Söhler,

  Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Medical Centre Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany

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• Claus Vogelmeier,

  Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Medical Centre Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany

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• Joachim H. Ficker,

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, Klinikum Nuremberg, Nürnberg, Germany, Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Nürnberg, Germany

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• Harald Mückter,

  Affiliation Walther-Straub-Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, München, Germany

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• Rudolf A. Jörres,

  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

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• COSYCONET-Consortium

  ¶Membership of the COSYCONET-Consortium is listed in the Supporting Information (S1 COSYCONET Consortium).

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