However, this study of the Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints (ECLIPSE) database only evaluated global mortality and not specifically CV deaths or CV events, and did not compare the predictive power of CAC with other well established noninvasive CV risk factors like cholesterol levels, CRP, microalbuminuria, Framingham score or SCORE charts. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.