TY - JOUR
AU - Marcus, Ellen B.
AB - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 587 RE: "PULMONARY FUNCTION AS A PREDICTOR OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE" We have read the paper by Marcus et al. (1) con- risk factors are dealt with, would be to include forced cerning pulmonary function and coronary heart dis- expiratory volume in 1 second (unadjusted for age and ease with particular interest as we have recently ex- height), age, and height into the logistic regression model. For ex- and current smokers, "pack-years" amined the issue using data from the British Regional could also be included. The analysis as presented is Heart Study. In middle-aged British men, we con- cluded (2) that forced expiratory volume in 1 second, likely to underestimate the true importance of forced standardized for height, was inversely related indepen- expiratory volume in 1 second as a risk factor. dently of other risk factors to coronary heart disease 3) In the Honolulu study it appears that exsmokers risk. Marcus et al. found that the percentage of pre- had a lower risk of heart attack than did never smokers dicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second was in- (ref. 1, table 5), a point that is not commented on in dependently related to risk 
TI - THE FIRST AUTHOR REPLIES
JF - American Journal of Epidemiology
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115700
DA - 1990-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-first-author-replies-RZ4ivDQOhK
SP - 587
EP - 588
VL - 132
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -