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Article History

Accepted: 11 August 2025

First Online: 2 September 2025

Declarations

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: Not applicable.

: DRS and DLS are Specialty Registrars in Respiratory Medicine and have no conflicts of interest. SPH is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine and has received grant funding, consultancy fees and support to attend conferences from Boehringer Ingelheim, speaker fees and support to attend conferences from Chiesi and consultancy fees from Trevi Therapeutics, and is a trustee of Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis.

: This article is the result of a study of data in the public domain, and all authors declare compliance with all ethical standards.

: Not applicable.

: Data in addition to those provided in the article and supplementary data tables can be provided, if readily available, upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.

: Not applicable.

: DRS conceived the project. DRS and DLS contributed equally to exploring the database and extracting the data. All three authors were involved in analysing the data and writing initial drafts and approving the final version.