CRP and hypertensive disorder: In further analyses, age, gender, marital status, education, household income, height, asthma, angina, previous heart attack, high cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, CESD depressive symptoms, alcohol, smoking years, number of general practice visits, Pf, urea, urate, LDL, HDL, fibrinogen, homocysteine, GFR, CRP, pulse pressure, and medications (consumption of cardiovascular, anticholinergic, NSAID medicines) were all statistically significantly associated with FEV1 in a simple linear regression model.