Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: a multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis.

Eveline Nüesch, Caroline Dale, Tom M Palmer, Jon White, Brendan J Keating, Erik Pa van Iperen, Anuj Goel, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Folkert W Asselbergs, W M Verschuren, C Wijmenga, Y T Van der Schouw, N C Onland-Moret, Leslie A Lange, G K Hovingh, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Richard W Morris, Peter H Whincup, Goya S Wannamethe, Tom R GauntShah Ebrahim, Laura Steel, Nikhil Nair, Alexander P Reiner, Charles Kooperberg, James F Wilson, Jennifer L Bolton, Stela McLachlan, Jacqueline F Price, Mark Wj Strachan, Christine M Robertson, Marcus E Kleber, Graciela Delgado, Winfried März, Olle Melander, Anna F Dominiczak, Martin Farrall, Hugh Watkins, Maarten Leusink, Anke H Maitland-van der Zee, Mark Ch de Groot, Frank Dudbridge, Aroon Hingorani, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Debbie A Lawlor, A Amuzu, M Caufield, A Cavadino, J Cooper, T L Davies, F Drenos, J Engmann, C Finan, C Giambartolomei, R Hardy, S E Humphries, E Hypponen, M Kivimaki, D Kuh, M Kumari, K Ong, V Plagnol, C Power, M Richards, S Shah, T Shah, R Sofat, P J Talmud, N Wareham, H Warren, J C Whittaker, A Wong, D Zabaneh, George Davey Smith, Jonathan C Wells, David A Leon, Michael V Holmes, Juan P Casas

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Abstract

We investigated causal effect of completed growth, measured by adult height, on coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and cardiovascular traits, using instrumental variable (IV) Mendelian randomization meta-analysis.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1927-1937
JournalInternational Journal of Epidemiology
Volume45
Issue number6
Early online date2015 May 15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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  • Health Sciences

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