Late Breaking Abstract - Associations between lung function and incident cardiac events over 350,000 person-years: the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study

Conclusions: Airflow limitation was not independently associated with incident MACE in the general population; modest and inconsistent associations were observed in smokers only. Previously reported associations may reflect selection bias or smoking effects.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 6, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Oelsner, E., Balte, P., Cassano, P., Couper, D., Folsom, A., Jacobs, D., Kalhan, R., Kronmal, R., Lange, L., Barr, R. G., Loehr, L., London, S., Navas Acien, A., Newman, A., O'Connor, G., Schwartz, J., Smith, L., White, W., Yeh, F., Yende, S. Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research