Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen; Torben Jørgensen; Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration

doi:10.1093/ije/dys086

Adult height and the risk of cause-specific death and vascular morbidity in 1 million people: individual participant meta-analysis

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Torben Jørgensen, Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration

Department of Public Health

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Epidemiology
Volume	41
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	1419-33
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0300-5771
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dys086
Publication status	Published - 2012

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