TABLE 8.

Factors associated with affecting the annual height decrease.

	Estimate	Standard error	T-value	P-value
Intercept	–0.284	0.029	–9.91	<0.0001
Sex (female)	0.072	0.003	23.73	<0.0001
Age (>60)	0.051	0.002	25.11	<0.0001
Low-income	0.021	0.002	10.99	<0.0001
Hypertension	0.007	0.002	3.60	0.0003
Diabetes	0.002	0.002	0.98	0.3267
Dyslipidemia	–0.017	0.002	–8.31	<0.0001
Smoking	0.025	0.003	8.86	<0.0001
Drinking	–0.008	0.002	–3.51	0.0005
BMI (<25)	–0.011	0.002	–5.91	<0.0001
Baseline height	0.003	0.0002	15.02	<0.0001

R² = 0.0111, Adj R² = 0.0110, F-value = 142.93, P-value ≤0.0001.

Multivariate linear regression.