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Affiliations

• ¹ National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK.
• ² Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory Medicine & Allergology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ³ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
• ⁵ James Hogg Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁶ Division of Pulmonology, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁷ Department of Chest Diseases, Cukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
• ⁸ Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• ⁹ Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• ¹⁰ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹¹ Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
• ¹² Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA.