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"Disclosure PKJ reports honoraria for lectures from Chiesi. HLP reports honoraria for advisory boards/lectures from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithCline, Intermune, Roche and the Swedish Medical Products Agency. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work."

"This work was supported by grants to P.K.J. and H.L.P from the Medical Research Council of Southeast Sweden (FORSS) (Grant No. FORSS-969385, FORSS-980999) and grants to L.L. and H.L.P. from Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova (Dnr: 2019-05402) in Swelife’s and Medtech4Health’s Collaborative projects for better health programme. The study sponsors had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation; in the writing of the manuscript; nor in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication."

"Ethics Statement and Study Registration: The study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (dnr: 2020-03308; L. Lind) according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. All patients were included following verbal and written information of the study and after informed consent to participate. The study was registered at ISRCTN (ISRCTN34252610)."