TY - JOUR
T1 - Lung Function and Incident Coronary Heart Disease
T2 - The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
AU - Schroeder, Emily B.
AU - Welch, Verna Lamar
AU - Couper, David
AU - Nieto, F. Javier
AU - Liao, Duanping
AU - Rosamond, Wayne D.
AU - Heiss, Gerardo
N1 - Funding Information:
The ARIC Study was supported by contracts N01-HC-55015, N01-HC-55016, N01-HC-55018, N01-HC-55019, N01-HC-55020, N01-HC-55021, and N01-HC-55022 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. V. L. W. was supported by grant 5F-31-HL-09284 and E. B. S. by grant 5T-32-HL-07055 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
PY - 2003/12/15
Y1 - 2003/12/15
N2 - The authors examined the association between lung function, as measured by forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity, and the 10-year incidence of coronary heart disease among 14,480 participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (1987-1998). Separate proportional hazards models were used for FEV1 and forced vital capacity, with gender-specific lung function quartiles and lung function x gender interaction terms. An association between lung function and coronary heart disease was observed in both genders and was stronger among women. After adjustment for age, race, study center, height, height squared, smoking, and cardiovascular disease risk factors, the hazard ratios for the first (lowest), second, and third quartiles of FEV1 were 3.70 (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.19, 6.24), 2.54 (95% CI: 1.49, 4.32), and 2.25 (95% CI: 1.31, 3.87) for women and 1.51 (95% CI: 1.07, 2.13), 1.59 (95% CI: 1.15, 2.20), and 1.52 (95% CI: 1.10, 2.09) for men. After stratification by smoking status, associations were observed in each smoking group for women, while those in men were weaker and less consistent. Similar results were obtained for forced vital capacity. This analysis indicates an association between lung function and incident coronary heart disease that may be stronger in women than in men.
AB - The authors examined the association between lung function, as measured by forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity, and the 10-year incidence of coronary heart disease among 14,480 participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (1987-1998). Separate proportional hazards models were used for FEV1 and forced vital capacity, with gender-specific lung function quartiles and lung function x gender interaction terms. An association between lung function and coronary heart disease was observed in both genders and was stronger among women. After adjustment for age, race, study center, height, height squared, smoking, and cardiovascular disease risk factors, the hazard ratios for the first (lowest), second, and third quartiles of FEV1 were 3.70 (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.19, 6.24), 2.54 (95% CI: 1.49, 4.32), and 2.25 (95% CI: 1.31, 3.87) for women and 1.51 (95% CI: 1.07, 2.13), 1.59 (95% CI: 1.15, 2.20), and 1.52 (95% CI: 1.10, 2.09) for men. After stratification by smoking status, associations were observed in each smoking group for women, while those in men were weaker and less consistent. Similar results were obtained for forced vital capacity. This analysis indicates an association between lung function and incident coronary heart disease that may be stronger in women than in men.
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U2 - 10.1093/aje/kwg276
DO - 10.1093/aje/kwg276
M3 - Article
C2 - 14652302
AN - SCOPUS:0347379940
SN - 0002-9262
VL - 158
SP - 1171
EP - 1181
JO - American journal of epidemiology
JF - American journal of epidemiology
IS - 12
ER -