Adult height and the risks of cardiovascular disease and major causes of death in the Asia-Pacific region: 21 000 deaths in 510 000 men and women

Background: In Caucasian populations, adult height is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and positively related to some cancers. However, there are few data from Asian populations and from women. We sought to determine the sex- and region-specific associations between height...

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Main Authors: Lee, Crystal, Barzi, F., Woodward, M., Batty, G., Giles, G., Wong, J., Jamrozik, K., Lam, T., Ueshima, H., Kim, H., Gu, D., Schooling, M., Huxley, Rachel, Maegawa, H., Okayama, A., Nakamura, M., Aoki, N., Wu, Z., Yao, C., Luszcz, M., Welborn, T., Tang, Z., Liu, L., Xie, J., Norton, R., Ameratunga, S., MacMahon, S., Whitlock, G., Knuiman, M., Christensen, H., Wu, X., Zhou, J., Yu, X., Tamakoshi, A., Pan, W., Chen, L., Shan, G., Sritara, P., Duan, X., Jackson, R., Li, Y., Jiang, C., Kiyohara, Y., Arima, H., Iida, M., Woo, J., Ho, S., Hong, Z., Huang, M., Zhou, B., Fuh, J., Kita, Y., Choudhury, S., Suh, I., Jee, S., Kim, I., Hashimoto, T., Sakata, K., Dobson, A., Imai, Y., Ohkubo, T., Hozawa, A., Hobbs, M., Broadhurst, R., Nakachi, K., Fang, X., Li, S., Yang, Q., Chen, Z., Tanaka, H., Nozaki, A., Matsutani, Y., Horibe, H., Kagaya, M., Hughes, K., Lee, J., Heng, D., Chew, S., Zhang, H., Shimamoto, K., Saitoh, S., Li, Z., Norman, P.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40708