Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine and German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ² Department of Pneumology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ³ University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Epidemiology Unit, German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁵ Clinic of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Thoraxclinic, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁷ Medical Clinic I, Clinic Loewenstein, Loewenstein, Germany.
• ⁸ Clinic III for Internal Medicine (Cardiology) and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁹ Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Internal Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Cardiology, Mission Medical Hospital, Würzburg, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Pneumology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Munich Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.
• ¹³ University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Center of Oncology, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁴ LungenClinic, Grosshansdorf, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Clinic of Internal Medicine, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiology, DRK Kliniken Berlin Köpenick, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁸ Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Pulmonary Diseases, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ²⁰ Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Defects, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ²¹ Department of Cardiology, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²² Department of Cardiology, Royal Free Hospital London, London, UK.
• ²³ Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Unit, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
• ²⁴ Herzzentrum Bad Oeynhausen, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
• ²⁵ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ²⁶ Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.