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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010 Aug 30;65(5):461–464. doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.103986

Table 2.

Hazard ratiose (95% CI) for the relationship of a 1 SD increase in height and height loss with future CHD: the Whitehall II study

Age-adjusteda Age- + baseline
risk factorb-
adjusted
Men (N=3802, 69 events)
   Height at baseline 0.94 (0.75, 1.19) 0.94 (0.81, 1.09)
   Height at resurvey 0.91 (0.72, 1.15) 0.99 (0.78, 1.26)
   Rate of absolute height loss between baseline and resurveyc 1.27 (1.03, 1.58) 1.24 (1.00, 1.53)
   Rate of proportional height loss between baseline and resurveyd 1.27 (1.03, 1.58) 1.24 (1.00, 1.53)
Women (N=1615, 18 events)
   Height at baseline 0.61 (0.39, 0.94) 0.65 (0.41, 1.03)
   Height at resurvey 0.59 (0.38, 0.93) 0.64 (0.40, 1.03)
   Rate of absolute height loss between baseline and resurvey 1.02 (0.66, 1.58) 0.93 (0.58, 1.50)
   Rate of proportional height loss between baseline and resurvey 1.02 (0.66, 1.58) 0.96 (0.60, 1.52)
a

Age at resurvey.

b

Adjusted for baseline measures of socio-economic status, smoking, total cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, body mass index and diabetes.

c

Units are cm per decade; comparison is 1 SD increase.

d

Units are percent reduction in height per decade; comparison is 1 SD increase.

e

Cox proportional hazards regression was used to compute these hazard ratios with accompanying 95% confidence intervals.