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METS-VF was categorised into quartiles. In UK Biobank, outcomes included all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), COPD-specific mortality, pulmonary heart disease (PHD), pulmonary embolism (PE) and heart failure (HF); in NHANES, only all-cause and CVD mortality were evaluated. UK Biobank analyses used Cox models, restricted cubic splines, Kaplan-Meier curves, time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and mediation analysis (C reactive protein (CRP), white blood cell count (WBC), platelet count (PLT)). NHANES served as an external validation cohort using survey-weighted Cox models, subgroup and sensitivity analyses and time-dependent ROC for the two mortality outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In UK Biobank, restricted cubic splines identified non-linear associations of METS-VF with all-cause and CVD mortality, with a common inflection point at 7.03, and linear associations with secondary outcomes. Compared with the lowest quartile, the highest METS-VF quartile showed significantly higher risks of all-cause mortality (HR 1.467), CVD mortality (HR 3.000), COPD-specific mortality (HR 1.952), PHD (HR 3.505), PE (HR 2.301) and HF (HR 2.567). Similar positive associations were observed in NHANES, where the highest METS-VF quartile remained significantly associated with all-cause mortality (HR 3.337) and CVD mortality (HR 3.011). Time-dependent ROC analyses demonstrated modest but stable discrimination across follow-up in both cohorts. Mediation analyses showed that CRP and WBC partially mediated the associations of METS-VF with mortality and cardiopulmonary outcomes, whereas PLT did not exhibit significant mediation effects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Elevated METS-VF is consistently associated with increased long-term risks of mortality and cardiopulmonary complications in COPD across independent discovery and validation cohorts. 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