Up-to-date on mortality in COPD - report from the OLIN COPD study.

Maybe the impact of current treatment guidelines of cardiovascular disease has reduced mortality contributing to the borderline significance of heart disease as a risk factor while we found COPD and impaired lung function still being strong and significant risk factors for death.

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When the variable smoking habits was added to the model, heart disease did not reach statistical significance, but close to (HR 1.42, CI 1.00-2.01) (table 3 ).

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