Associations of adult height and its components with mortality: A report from cohort studies of 135 000 chinese women and men

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1715-1726

  Wang, Na ^a   Zhang, Xianglan ^a   Xiang, Yong Bing ^b   Yang, Gong ^a   Li, Hong Lan ^b   Gao, Jing ^b   Cai, Hui ^a   Gao, Yu Tang ^b   Zheng, Wei ^a   Shu, Xiao Ou ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Body height; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Chinese; Cohort study; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH RISK; HEIGHT; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINESE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEG LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REGISTER; SITTING; STANDING; TRUNK; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CHINA;

EID: 83455230984     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr173     Document Type: Article

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