Pontus Andell was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1987. He studied medicine at Lund University and graduated in 2014. He is now currently doing his internship at Skåne University Hospital in Lund and aims to specialize in cardiology. The focus of this doctoral thesis was to describe and characterize patients with acute coronary syndromes and concomitant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, their management, and the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on outcome.