Titre : | Adult socioeconomic position and the association between height and coronary heart disease mortality : Findings from 33 years of follow-up in the whitehall study. (2005) |
Auteurs : | Claudia LANGENBERG ; BATTY (Gdavid) : GBR. Department of Psychology. University of Edinburgh. Scotland. ; Michael-G MARMOT ; Martin-J SHIPLEY |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 95, n° 4, 2005) |
Pagination : | 628-632 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Cardiopathie coronaire ; Adulte ; Homme ; Facteur socioéconomique ; Association ; Taille corporelle ; Mortalité ; Epidémiologie ; Appareil circulatoire [pathologie] |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 4Sa7R0xp. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In the Whitehall Study, which followed 17139 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 [Cl]=0.69,0.85 ; P |