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First Online: 20 October 2017

Competing interests

: F.J.M. has received personal fees from the American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech/Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Patara and Pearl; he has made continuing medical education presentations to AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Miller Communications, the National Association for Continuing Education, Prime, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and UpToDate; he has served on steering committees for studies supported by Afferent, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Gilead and GlaxoSmithKline; and he has served on the data and safety monitoring board for studies supported by Biogen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech and GlaxoSmithKline. H.R.C. has received personal fees from aTyr Pharmaceuticals, Bayer, Blood Therapeutics, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genoa, ImmuneWorks, Moerae Matrix, Navitor, Parexel, Patara, PharmAkea, Prometic, Takeda and Toray. G.R. has received personal fees and other fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, FibroGen, Gilead, Patara, Promedior, Roche/Genentech, Sanofi, United Therapeutics, UCB and Veracyte outside the submitted work. L.R. has received grants and personal fees from InterMune, and he has received personal fees from Asahi Kasei, Bayer, Biogen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, FibroGen, Global Blood Therapeutics, ImmuneWorks, Promedior, Pliant Therapeutics, Roche and Sanofi Aventis. M.S. is contributing to the adjudication committee for a clinical trial conducted by Celgene. J.J.S. reports consulting for Global Blood Therapeutics and serving on the unbranded speaker's bureau for Boehringer Ingelheim and Genentech. H.T. has received personal fees from Abbott, Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Astellas Pharma, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Fukuda Denshi, GlaxoSmithKline, KYORIN Pharmaceutical, Meiji Seika Pharma, Novartis, Ono Pharmaceutical, Pfizer, Philips Respironics GK, Taiho Phamaceutical, Teijin Pharma and Terumo; he has received personal fees and other fees from Asahi Kasei Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chugai Pharmaceutical and Shionogi & Co outside the submitted work. A.U.W. has received personal fees from Actelion, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi and InterMune/Roche. A.P. declares no competing interests.