Mortality and cardiovascular and respiratory morbidity in individuals with impaired FEV1 (PURE): an international, community-based cohort study

• Main Authors: MyLinh Duong, MBBS (Author), Shofiqul Islam, PhD (Author), Sumathy Rangarajan, MSc (Author), Darryl Leong, PhD (Author), Om Kurmi, PhD (Author), Koon Teo, ProfMB (Author), Kieran Killian, PhD (Author), Gilles Dagenais, ProfMD (Author), Scott Lear, ProfPhD (Author), Andreas Wielgosz, ProfMD (Author), Sanjeev Nair, ProfMD (Author), Viswanathan Mohan, MD (Author), Prem Mony, MD (Author), Rajeev Gupta, ProfMD (Author), Rajesh Kumar, ProfMD (Author), Omar Rahman, ProfDSc (Author), Khalid Yusoff, ProfMBBS (Author), Johannes Lodewykus du Plessis, ProfPhD (Author), Ehimario U Igumbor, PhD (Author), Jephat Chifamba, DPhil (Author), Wei Li, ProfPhD (Author), Yin Lu, PhD (Author), Fumin Zhi, BSc (Author), Ruohua Yan, MSc (Author), Romaina Iqbal, PhD (Author), Noorhassim Ismail, ProfMD (Author), Katarzyna Zatonska, MD (Author), Kubilay Karsidag, ProfMD (Author), Annika Rosengren, ProfMD (Author), Ahmad Bahonar, MD (Author), Afazalhussein Yusufali, MD (Author), Pablo M Lamelas, MD (Author), Alvaro Avezum, ProfMD (Author), Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, ProfMD (Author), Fernando Lanas, ProfMD (Author), Paul M O'Byrne, ProfMB (Author), Salim Yusuf, ProfDPhil (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: The associations between the extent of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) impairment and mortality, incident cardiovascular disease, and respiratory hospitalisations are unclear, and how these associations might vary across populations is unknown. Methods: In this internatio...