“…The departure from a linear relation with resting heart rate was not significant for risk of coronary artery disease (15 studies, 13,14,16,21,23,24,26,[28][29][30][31][32]35,36,49 p for nonlinearity = 0.05, Figure 3A), stroke (10 studies, 14,16,23,24,26,28,35,36,50,51 p for nonlinearity > 0.9), noncardiovascular diseases (8 studies, 14,23,30,[42][43][44][45]49 p for nonlinearity = 0.2, Figure 3B), cancer (6 studies, 16,26,42,45,52,53 p for nonlinearity = 0.9), noncardiovascular diseases excluding cancer (3 studies, 16,18,42 p for nonlinearity = 0.4) and sudden death (3 studies, 13,21,23 p for nonlinearity = 0.6). When we used the lowest value in the included s...…”