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- Title
Adult socioeconomic position and the association between height and coronary heart disease mortality: findings from 33 years of follow-up in the Whitehall Study.
- Authors
Langenberg, Claudia; Shipley, Martin J; Batty, G David; Marmot, Michael G
- Abstract
In the Whitehall Study, which followed 17,139 male civil servants over 33 years, the association between tall stature and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality differed between employment grades. In men without CHD at study entry, the hazard ratio per 15-cm increase in height was 0.77 (95% confidence interval [CI]=0.69, 0.85; P<0.001) for the highest grades, but 0.84 (95% CI=0.69, 1.03; P=.10) for middle and 0.95 (95% CI=0.75, 1.20; P=.65) for low grades, suggesting that childhood and adult social conditions may interact in their influence on coronary risk.
- Publication
American journal of public health, 2005, Vol 95, Issue 4, p628
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/2004.046219