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Affiliations

• ¹ Laboratory of Experimental Thoracic Surgery, Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism, and Ageing, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: dirk.vanraemdonck@uzleuven.be.
• ² Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.
• ³ Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium; Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.