Adult height and risk of coronary heart disease: Tehran lipid and glucose study

Abstract

Background: We assessed the relationship between height and coronary heart disease (CHD) in an urban population of Tehran. Methods: 4110 participants of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study who were 40 years of age or older (1880 men and 2230 women; mean age, 55.1 and 53.0 years, respectively) and free of CHD at baseline were followed for a mean of 9.1 years. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to evaluate the risk of a first CHD event across height tertiles. Results: First CHD events occurred in 239 men and 172 women. The estimated crude HR (95% CI) for CHD events associated with an increment of 1 SD in height was 0.96 (0.28-3.33) in men and 0.84 (0.72-0.97) in women. After adjustment for age, the associations were no longer present. Further adjustment for other confounders had little impact on the results: the HR (95% CI) associated with an increase of 1 SD in height was 1.02 (0.87-1.20) in men and 0.82 (0.66-1.02) in women. © 2011 by the Japan Epidemiological Association.