About the Authors

Stephanie Roll

stephanie.roll@charite.de

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Reinhold

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Daniel Pach

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Benno Brinkhaus

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Katja Icke

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Doris Staab

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Immunology, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Tanja Jäckel

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Karl Wegscheider

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Stefan N. Willich

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Claudia M. Witt

Affiliations Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany, Centre for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMW BB SNW. Performed the experiments: CMW BB DP DS TJ. Analyzed the data: SR TR KI KW. Wrote the paper: SR TR DP BB KW DS TJ KI SNW CMW.