CRP and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A large-scale prospective study reported the effects of statins on mortality in patients with COPD by using the Rotterdam study data; stratification by high-sensitivity CRP revealed that all-cause mortality was 78% lower among patients with CRP ≥ 3 mg/L, whereas it was only by 21% lower among those with CRP < 3 mg/L [43].