Association of airway inflammation and smoking status with IL-33 level in sputum of patients with asthma or COPD

Affiliations

• ¹ LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Grosshansdorf, Germany.
• ² Authors contributed equally to this work.
• ³ Pulmonary Research Institute at the LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Grosshansdorf, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Preventive Medicine, and Digital Health Baden-Württemberg (CPD-BW), University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁶ University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein-Campus Kiel, Department for Internal Medicine I, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Kiel, Germany.
• ⁷ LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Grosshansdorf, Germany [email protected].