Decrements of body mass index are associated with poor outcomes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients

• Tejaswini Kulkarni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4251-4988

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• Kaiyu Yuan,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Thi K. Tran-Nguyen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Young-il Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Joao A. de Andrade,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Tracy Luckhardt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Vincent G. Valentine,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Daniel J. Kass,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Steven R. Duncan

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

  * E-mail: srduncan@uabmc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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