Commentary: Disentangling the association between short height and cardiovascular risk - Genes or environment?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 614-616

  Langenberg, Claudia ^a   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEIGHT; RISK FACTOR;

ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE GROWTH; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY RISK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTIMA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEG LENGTH; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHORT STATURE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THICKNESS; TUNICA MEDIA;

BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0042886051     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg221     Document Type: Article

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