Height and risk of death among men and women: Aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-103

  Smith, George Davey ^a   Hart, Carole ^b   Upton, Mark ^b   Hole, David ^b   Gillis, Charles ^b   Watt, Graham ^b   Hawthorne, Victor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; HEART DISEASE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; MALE; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 1642618159     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.2.97     Document Type: Article

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