Why a Sex Difference in Age-Adjusted Relationship Between Height and Stroke Mortality? | Zendy

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Why a Sex Difference in Age-Adjusted Relationship Between Height and Stroke Mortality?

Author(s) -

Declan Walsh,

Teresa Donnelly,

Declan Lyons

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.107.489559

Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , stroke (engine) , demography , unit (ring theory) , age groups , gerontology , psychology , mechanical engineering , sociology , engineering , mathematics education

To the Editor:We read with interest the study by Hozawa et al,1 who concluded that height is inversely related to stroke mortality and that the relationship is statistically significant among women but not men when adjusted for age. The authors put forward several possible confounding factors including age effect and the impact of classic stroke risk factors. Adjusting for these variables, however, did not fully attenuate the relationship between height and stroke mortality in women. We feel that the following points need to be considered in order to better understand this age-adjusted sex difference in the relationship between height and stroke mortality.Although the authors examined the …

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