Patients with both hypertension and diabetes had the shortest length of the SOD (OR, 0.17; 95% CI, 0.14 to 0.20), followed by patients with both hypertension and chronic lung disease (OR, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.10 to 0.34) and diabetes and chronic lung disease (OR, 0.33; 95% CI, 0.10 to 1.09). This evidence concerns the gene SOD1 and chronic lung disease.