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Received: 30 July 2018

Accepted: 25 September 2018

First Online: 8 October 2018

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: AG reports personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi Farmaceutici, Vertex Spa. SA reports grant support from AstraZeneca, Bayer Healthcare, Grifols, Pfizer Ltd. and GlaxoSmithKline. AC has received payments for board membership, income for lectures, or support for research in respiratory disease from the following organizations: Astra Zeneca SPA, Boehringer Ingelheim Italia SPA, GlaxoSmithKline S.p.A., Grifols Italia S.P.A., Meda Pharma, Novartis Farma S.p.A., Stallergenes Italia S.r.l, CSL Behring SpA, A. Menarini Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite Srl. LR reports personal fees from Medimmune, Biogen, Sanofi-Aventis, Takeda, ImmuneWorks, Shionogi, Cipla, Pliants Therapeutics, Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche. CV participated as a consultant, speaker and investigator for Actelion, Boehringer Ingelheim, Gilead, InterMune Inc. and Roche. FB reports research grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, Zambon, and Pfizer, congress lecture fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Guidotti-Malesci, Menarini, GSK, Chiesi, Pfizer and Novartis, and consultancy fees from AstraZeneca, Menarini, Mundipharma, Novartis, GSK, Teva and Pfizer. FB is Editor-in-Chief of <i>Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine</i>, whereas SA, AC and LR are Associate Editors of <i>Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine.</i>

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