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Impaired lung function is associated with cardiovascular disease, though it remains unclear if this relationship is a direct cause, an effect, or merely a force of circumstance.
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No immediate change to CVD risk assessment; leaves open whether impaired lung function is causal, consequential, or coincidental.
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McAllister et al. (2016) studied this question. Impaired lung function is associated with cardiovascular disease, though it remains unclear if this relationship is a direct cause, an effect, or merely a force of circumstance.
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