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

Introduction: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is common in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and many case-control studies suggest COPD increases CHD risk. Whether lung function impairment is independently associated with incident CHD in the general population remains controversial. Aim: To test if lung function is associated with incident major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in four US population-based cohorts....