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"Disclosure Guy B Marks has provided independent medical service on an advisory board for Astra Zeneca. Michael J Abramson holds investigator-initiated grants for unrelated research from Pfizer, GSK, Boehringer-Ingelheim and Sanofi and he has also conducted an unrelated consultancy for Sanofi. He has also received a speaker’s fee from GSK. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to publish the results. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest."

"This research was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, grant number 457385 and supported by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, The Robert Pierce Grant-in-Aid for Indigenous Lung Health (2010); Air Liquide, AstraZeneca; GlaxoSmithKline; and Boehringer Ingelheim (2005)."