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Inclusion Criteria: Group A (patients with acute cardiac disease) * Male or female * Age ≥ 40years old * Hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome for less than 7 days. * Informed consent from the patient * Person insured under a health insurance scheme Group B (patients with chronic cardiovascular disease) * Male or female, * Age ≥ 40 years old * Undergoing coronary artery by-pass surgery * Hospitalized in intensive care unit for \> 12 hours * Informed consent from the patient * Person insured under a health insurance scheme Group C (patients at risk of CVRD without chronic cardiovascular disease) * Male or female, * Age ≥ 40 years old * Familial high levels of cholesterol or triglycerides * With no personal history of CVRD, with a recent negative cardiac exercise test (last test inferior to 12 months) * Follow-up for lipid abnormalities at high risk of CVRD events * Informed consent from the patient * Person insured under a health insurance scheme Group D (patients with HAP) * Male or female * Age ≥ 40years old * With one or more risk factors for CVD among: smoking, abnormal lipidic levels, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease * Cured from mechanically ventilated HAP during the current hospitalization * Informed consent from the patient or relatives * Person insured under a health insurance scheme Exclusion Criteria: * o Groups A, B, C and D * Age \>80 years old * Immunosuppression pre-existing to the index hospitalisation, defined as lymphopenia \< 500 elements/mm3, haematologic cancer, aplasia, chemotherapy/radiotherapy for cancer within 3 months prior to the inclusion, or anti-graft rejection drug. * Pregnant women, breastfeeding women. * Adults under guardianship or trusteeship. * Low probability of survival at day 28. o Groups A, B, C * Community-acquired pneumonia or Hospital-acquired pneumonia within the last year.