Contributors
Alessandro Marcon:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2778-658X
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review &
editing
Giancarlo Pesce: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Lucia Calciano: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Valeria Bellisario: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Shyamali C. Dharmage: Role: Writing – review & editing
Judith Garcia-Aymerich: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Thorarinn Gislasson: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Joachim Heinrich: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Mathias Holm: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Christer Janson: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Deborah Jarvis: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Bénédicte Leynaert: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Melanie C. Matheson: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Pietro Pirina: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Cecilie Svanes: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Simona Villani: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Torsten Zuberbier: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Cosetta Minelli: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Simone Accordini: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Raymond Niaura: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
22
August
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 8
Electronic Location Identifier: e0201881
Affiliations
[1
]
Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Diagnostics and Public
Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
[2
]
Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
[3
]
Allergy and Lung Health Unit, School of Population and Global Health, The University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
[4
]
ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
[5
]
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
[6
]
CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
[7
]
Department of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep, Landspitali University Hospital (E7),
Reykjavik, Iceland
[8
]
University of Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavik, Iceland
[9
]
Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine,
Clinical Center, Ludwig Maximilians University, Comprehensive Pneumology Centre Munich,
German Centre for Lung Research, Muenchen, Germany
[10
]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg,
Gothenburg, Sweden
[11
]
Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory, Allergy and Sleep research, Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden
[12
]
Population Health & Occupational Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial
College London, London, United Kingdom
[13
]
MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, United
Kingdom
[14
]
Inserm UMR 1152, Pathophysiology and Epidemiology of Respiratory Diseases, Paris,
France
[15
]
University Paris Diderot Paris 7, UMR 1152, Paris, France
[16
]
Institute of Respiratory Diseases, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
[17
]
Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
[18
]
Department of Occupational Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
[19
]
Unit of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Experimental
and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
[20
]
Allergy Centre Charité, Department of Dermatology & Allergy, Charité—Universitätsmedizin
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Legacy, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: TZ has received industry consulting, research grants and/or honoraria from: AstraZeneca,
AbbVie, ALK, Almirall, Astellas, Bayer Health Care, Bencard, Berlin Chemie, FAES,
HAL, Henkel, Kryolan, Leti, L'Oreal, Meda, Menarini, Merck, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer,
Sanofi, Stallergenes, Takeda, Teva, UCB; TZ reports the following organizational affiliations:
Committee member, WHO-Initiative “Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma” (ARIA);
Member of the Board, German Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (DGAKI); Head,
European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF); Secretary General, Global
Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN); Member, Committee on Allergy Diagnosis
and Molecular Allergology, World Allergy Organisation (WAO). All the other authors
report no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest
in the submitted work in the previous three years, and no other relationships or activities
that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. These competing interests
do not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
There are no restrictions to the sharing of data from this study.
¶ Principal Investigators and Partners of the Ageing Lungs In European Cohorts study
are provided in the Acknowledgments and the study website
https://www.alecstudy.org/.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-06892
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201881
PMC ID: 6104979
PubMed ID: 30133533
SO-VID: 71760849-7ca6-4117-ac8b-d554f5b3e51b
Copyright © © 2018 Marcon et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 5
March
2018
Date
accepted
: 24
July
2018
Page count
Figures: 3,
Tables: 2,
Pages: 14
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme;
Award ID: 633212
Award Recipient
:
Deborah Jarvis
This study has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No 633212. DJ has received support from
the European Union and the Medical Research Council. National funders who supported
data collection in the original cohort and cross-sectional studies are listed in S2
Appendix. The funders had no role in the writing of the manuscript or the decision
to submit it for publication. The corresponding author had full access to all the
data and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
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