Original Contribution Inflammatory Markers and Longitudinal Lung Function Decline in the Elderly

1 Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. 3 Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 4 Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 5 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA. 6 Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 7 Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 8 Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. 9 Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center and Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 10 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.