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The affiliations for some authors has been corrected. The changes are indication in bold:

HK Reddel¹, M Gerhardsson de Verdier², A Agustí³, R Beasley⁴, EH Bel⁵, C Janson⁶, B Make⁷, RJ Martin⁷, I Pavord⁸, D Postma⁹, D Price¹⁰, C Keen², A Gardev¹¹, S Rennard¹¹, A Sveréus², AT Bansal¹², L Brannman¹³, N Karlsson², J Nuevo¹⁴, F Nyberg², S Young¹¹, J Vestbo¹⁵

¹Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

²AstraZeneca, Madrid, Spain

³Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

⁴Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

⁵Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁶Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

⁷National Jewish Health and University of Colorado, Denver, USA

⁸University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

⁹University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

¹⁰Research in Real-Life, Singapore, Singapore

¹¹AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK

¹²Acclarogen Ltd, Cambridge, UK

¹³AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

¹⁴AstraZeneca, Madrid, Spain

¹⁵The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK