Koch, Andrea
Watz, Henrik
Maleki-Yazdi, M. Reza
Bothner, Ulrich http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6515-0841
Tetzlaff, Kay
Voß, Florian
McGarvey, Lorcan
Article History
Received: 7 February 2017
Revised: 14 August 2017
Accepted: 13 September 2017
First Online: 23 October 2017
Competing interests
: A.K. has received a grant from Actelion Pharmaceuticals and has taken part in congresses for Boehringer Ingelheim, Almirall, Bayer, TEVA, Roche, Actelion and Novartis. H.W. reports personal fees for consulting and compensation for his institution during the conduct of the study from Boehringer Ingelheim related to the submitted work, and participation in advisory boards for Almirall, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline, in lectures for Almirall, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, BerlinChemie, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Chiesi, and congress travel support from GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis outside the submitted work; his institution has also received compensation for the conduct of clinical studies from Almirall, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Chiesi, Takeda, AB2BIO, Bayer and Intermune outside the submitted work. M.R.M.-Y. declares that he has no competing financial interests. U.B., K.T. and F.V. are employees of Boehringer Ingelheim. L.M. reports personal fees from Applied Clinical Intelligence during the conduct of the study, grants from Asthma UK, NI Chest Heart & Stroke, NC3Rs, British Heart Foundation and Chiesi, travel and subsistence for attendance at scientific meetings from Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline and Chiesi, and advisory board/consultancy fees from Almirall, NAPP, GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim outside the submitted work.