Short stature and heart disease: nature or nurture? The EARS Group.

Open Access

1 August 1997

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 26 (4) , 748-756
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/26.4.748

Abstract

Previous studies have demonstrated that short men are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). It has been suggested that the inverse relationship between adult height and CHD risk could be attributable to the fetal origins of CHD.

Keywords

CORONARY HEART DISEASE
ADULT
STATURE
FETAL
EARS
NURTURE
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