Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis
Author(s) -
David Wormser,
Emanuele Di Angelantonio,
Stephen Kaptoge,
Angela Wood,
Pei Gao,
Qi Sun,
Göran Walldius,
Randi Selmer,
W. M. Monique Verschuren,
H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita,
Gunnar Engström,
Paul M. Ridker,
Inger Njølstad,
Hiroyasu Iso,
Ingar Holme,
Simona Giampaoli,
Hugh TunstallPedoe,
J. Michael Gaziano,
Eric J. Brunner,
Frank Kee,
Alberto Tosetto,
Christa Meisinger,
Hermann Brenner,
Pierre Ducimetière,
Peter H. Whincup,
Robert Tipping,
Ian Ford,
Peter Cremer,
Albert Hofman,
Lars Wilhelmsen,
Robert Clarke,
Ian H. de Boer,
J. Wouter Jukema,
Alejandro Marín Ibañez,
Debbie A. Lawlor,
Ralph B. D’Agostino,
Beatriz L. Rodríguez,
Edoardo Casiglia,
Coen D.A. Stehouwer,
Leon A. Simons,
Paul J. Nietert,
Elizabeth BarrettConnor,
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos,
Cecilia Björkelund,
Timo Strandberg,
Sylvia WassertheilSmoller,
Dan G. Blazer,
Tom Meade,
Lennart Welin,
Kurt Svärdsudd,
Mark Woodward,
Aulikki Nissinen,
Daan Kromhout,
Torben Jørgensen,
Reijo S. Tilvis,
Jack M. Guralnik,
Annika Rosengren,
James O. Taylor,
Stefan Kiechl,
Gilles R. Dagenais,
F Gerry,
R. Fowkes,
Robert B. Wallace,
Kay-Tee Khaw,
Jonathan A. Shaffer,
Marjolein Visser,
Jussi Kauhanen,
Jukka T. Salonen,
John Gallacher,
Yoav Ben–Shlomo,
Akihiko Kitamura,
Johan Sundström,
Patrik Wennberg,
Yutaka Kiyohara,
Makoto Daimon,
Agustı́n Gómez de la Cámara,
Jackie A. Cooper,
Altan Onat,
Richard B. Devereux,
Kenneth J. Mukamal,
Rachel Dankner,
Matthew Knuiman,
Carlos J. Crespo,
Ron T. Gansevoort,
Uri Goldbourt,
Børge G. Nordestgaard,
Jonathan E Shaw,
Michael E. Mussolino,
Hidaeki Nakagawa,
Astrid Fletcher,
Lewis H. Kuller,
Richard F Gillum,
Vilmundur Guðnason,
Gerd Assmann,
Nicholas Wald,
Pekka R Jousilahti,
Philip Greenland,
Maurizio Trevisan,
Hanno Ulmer,
Adam S. Butterworth,
Aaron R. Folsom,
George Davey Smith,
Frank B. Hu,
John Danesh,
C. E. Ford,
Lara M. Simpson,
Ingmar Jungner,
Ellen W. Demerath,
Nora Franceschini,
Pamela L. Lutsey,
Christos Pitsavos,
Christina Chrysohoou,
Christodoulos Stefanadis,
Robert C. Atkins,
Paul Zimmet,
Elizabeth LM Barr,
S. Goya Wannamethee,
Richard Morris,
Johann Willeit,
Siegfried Weger,
Friedrich Oberhollenzer,
Shah Ebrahim,
J. W. G. Yarnell,
Valérie Tikhonoff,
Christina M. Shay,
Daniel B. Garside,
Susan E. Sutherland,
David Bachman,
Julian Keil,
Jorge R. Kizer,
Bruce M. Psaty,
Anne TybjærgHansen,
Gorm Boje Jensen,
Peter Schnohr,
Luigi Palmieri,
Salvatore Panico,
Lorenza Pilotto,
Diego Vanuzzo,
Judith Simons,
John C. McCallum,
Yechiel Friedlander,
Jackie F. Price,
Amanda Lee,
Caroline L. Phillips,
Frank J. Kohout,
Joan CoriHuntley,
Nicholas J. Wareham,
Ben Schöttker,
Heiko Müller,
Dietrich Rothenbacher,
JanHåkan Jansson,
Chiara Donfrancesco,
Erkki Vartiainen,
Kennet Harald,
Veikko Salomaa,
Ramachandran S. Vasan,
Caroline S. Fox,
Michael J. Pencina,
Toshihide Oizumi,
Takamasa Kayama,
Takeo Kato,
ElseMarie Bladbjerg,
Lars Møller,
Jørgen Jespersen,
Angela Chetrit,
Flora Lubin,
Henry Eriksson,
Georgios Lappas,
Calle Bengtsson,
Lauren Lissner,
Dorothea Nagel,
Tatu A. Miettinen,
Hisatomi Arima,
Yasufumi Doi,
Toshiharu Ninomiya,
Joost Dekker,
Giel Nijpels,
Eric B. Rimm,
Walter C. Willett,
Kazumasa Yamagishi,
Hiroyuki Noda,
Sudhir Kurl,
Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen,
Jan Poppelaars,
Dorly JH Deeg,
Bianca De Stavola,
Bo Hedblad,
Peter Nilsson,
Anneke Blokstra,
Steven Shea,
Barbara Thorand,
Wolfgang Köenig,
Angela Döring,
Dorothea Nitsch,
Greg Grandits,
Aage Tverdal,
Wenche Nystad,
JoAnn E. Manson,
Susan E. Hankinson,
Kenneth A. Bauer,
Karina W. Davidson,
Susan Kirkland,
Daichi Shimbo,
Shinichi Sato,
Katsuyuki Miura,
Masaru Sakurai,
Xavier Jouven,
Stephan J. L. Bakker,
Pim van der Harst,
Hans L. Hillege,
Mario R. García-Palmieri,
Philippe Amouyel,
Dominique Arveiler,
Jean Ferrières,
H. Schulte,
Anton JM de Craen,
Naveed Sattar,
David J. Stott,
Bernard Cantin,
Benoı̂t Lamarche,
Jean–Pierre Després,
Jaclyn Bergstrom,
Richele Bettencourt,
Catherine Buisson,
Thor Aspelund,
Gunnar Sigurðsson,
Bolli Þórsson,
M. Arfan Ikram,
Henning Tiemeier,
Jacqueline C.M. Witteman,
Roger Tavendale,
Gordon Lowe,
Jeunliang Yeh,
Tauqeer Ali,
Darren Calhoun,
Günay Can,
Koshi Nakamura,
Yuko Morikawa,
Ellisiv B. Mathiesen,
MajaLisa Løchen,
Tom Wilsgaard,
Erik Ingelsson,
Karl Michaëlsson,
Tommy Cederholm,
Julie E. Buring,
Günter Diem,
Hans Concin,
Francesco Rodeghiero,
Michael Marmot,
Martin J. Shipley,
Mika Kivimäki,
Michele Robertson,
Edith J. M. Feskens,
Johanna M. Geleijnse,
Matthew R. Walker,
Sarah Watson,
M Alexander,
Oscar H. Franco,
Reeta Gobin,
Philip Haycock,
Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai,
Sarah Lewington,
Lisa Pennells,
Eleni Rapsomaniki,
Nadeem Sarwar,
Alexander Thompson,
Simon G. Thompson,
Ian R. White,
Xiaohui Zhao
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dys086
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , cause of death , stroke (engine) , confidence interval , disease , mechanical engineering , engineering
The extent to which adult height, a biomarker of the interplay of genetic endowment and early-life experiences, is related to risk of chronic diseases in adulthood is uncertain.
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