Table 2. Hazard ratio (95% confidence intervals) for a 1 standard deviation (6 cm) increase in height in relation to selected outcomes – stratified by region and gender.

	Sex	No. of deaths*	Overall (N=506, 648)	Australasia (N=98267)	Asia (N=408,381)	P-value for interaction by region
All deaths	M F	14614 6990	0.97 (0.95, 0.98) 0.98 (0.96, 1.01)	0.97 (0.95, 0.99) 0.99 (0.95, 1.02)	0.96 (0.94, 0.98) 0.98 (0.95, 1.01)	0.64 0.76
All cancers	M F	5232 2265	1.05 (1.02, 1.08) 1.09 (1.05, 1.14)	1.06 (1.02, 1.10) 1.11 (1.05, 1.17)	1.04 (1.00, 1.08) 1.08 (1.01, 1.14)	0.41 0.46
Intestine cancer	M F	401 276	1.09 (1.00, 1.20) 1.11 (0.99, 1.25)	1.11 (1.00, 1.24) 1.16 (1.01, 1.33)	1.05 (0.88, 1.24) 0.99 (0.80, 1.23)	0.56 0.24
Liver cancer	M F	800 126	0.97 (0.90, 1.04) 1.26 (1.05, 1.52)	0.84 (0.64, 1.11) 1.78 (1.17, 2.71)	0.98 (0.90, 1.06) 1.17 (0.96, 1.43)	0.31 0.074
Lung cancer	M F	1226 332	1.06 (1.00, 1.12) 1.08 (0.97, 1.21)	1.02 (0.94, 1.11) 1.03 (0.87, 1.21)	1.09 (1.01, 1.17) 1.13 (0.98, 1.30)	0.21 0.38
Breast cancer	M F	** 318	1.11 (0.99, 1.24)	1.18 (1.04, 1.33)	0.91 (0.73, 1.13)	0.044
Stomach cancer	M F	608 233	1.04 (0.96, 1.13) 1.11 (0.96, 1.27)	0.99 (0.83, 1.18) 0.96 (0.69, 1.35)	1.05 (0.96, 1.15) 1.13 (0.98, 1.32)	0.56 0.38
Prostate cancer	M F	274***	1.06 (0.95, 1.18)	1.06 (0.94, 1.18)	1.12 (0.80, 1.56)	0.74

All hazard ratios are age, study, and year of birth adjusted

^*number of events overall

^**too few events to run analyses

^***not applicable