Gender, marital status, education, household income, asthma, heart attack, high cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, alcohol, smoking years, number of general practice visits, pf, urea, urate, WBCC, fasting glucose, fibrinogen, homocysteine, CRP, pulse pressure, and medications (consumption of cardiovascular and anticholinergic medicines) were all statistically significantly associated with %Predicted FEV1in univariate analysis. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and atrial fibrillation.