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Editorial
. 2023 Dec 21;62(6):2301878.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.01878-2023. Print 2023 Dec.

Gastro-oesophageal reflux and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: sorting the chicken and the egg by genetic link

Chad A Newton  1 , Imre Noth  2 , Ganesh Raghu  3
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Editorial

Gastro-oesophageal reflux and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: sorting the chicken and the egg by genetic link

Chad A Newton et al. Eur Respir J. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: G. Raghu reports grants from NHLBI/NIH, consulting fees from BMS, United Therapeutics, Fibrogen and Veracyte, advisory board participation with Avalyn, leadership roles with ATS (IPF guideline chair) and the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (scientific advisory board), and other interests with Bellerophan, Gilead, Nitto, Novartis and Roche-Hoffman-Genentech (as unpaid consultant for IPF studies) and BI (as scientific reviewer for investigator initiated grant proposals), outside the submitted work. C.A. Newton reports support for the present work from NIH NHLBI (grant number K23HL148498); outside the submitted work, C.A. Newton reports consulting fees from Boehringer Ingelheim. I. Noth reports support for the present manuscript from NIH (grant number UG3HL145266); outside the submitted work, I. Noth reports grants from Veracyte, and consulting fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and Sanofi.

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