Gender-specific disease trajectories prior to the onset of COPD allow individualized screening and early intervention

• Michelle Hagmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle Hagmann, Florent Baty

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Lung Center, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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• Florent Baty ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle Hagmann, Florent Baty

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: florent.baty@kssg.ch

  Affiliation Lung Center, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1425-0428

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• Frank Rassouli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Lung Center, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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• Micha T. Maeder,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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• Martin H. Brutsche

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Lung Center, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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