Relationship between adult height and body weight and risk of carotid atherosclerosis assessed in terms of carotid intima-media thickness: The Nagasaki Islands study

Table 2 Odd ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for risk of atherosclerosis in relation to height for all subjects

	Height quartiles					For one SD increment in height
	Q1 (low)	Q2	Q3	Q4 (high)	P for trend	For one SD increment in height
Carotid atherosclerosis (CIMT ≥ 1.1 mm)
All subjects
Number at risk	331	349	321	336
Number of cases (percentage)	101 (31)	95 (27)	68 (21)	48 (14)
Age-adjusted OR	1.00	1.02 (0.72 to 1.45)	0.94 (0.64 to 1.37)	0.77 (0.51 to 1.17)	0.229	0.99 (0.86 to 1.15)
Multivariable OR	1.00	0.92 (0.64 to 1.32)	0.83 (0.56 to 1.23)	0.65 (0.42 to 1.01)	0.053	0.92 (0.79 to1.07)

Multivariable OR: adjusted further for age, systolic blood pressure, antihypertensive medication use, body mass index, smoking, alcohol intake, diabetes, serum triglycerides, serum HDL-cholesterol, serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and serum creatinine; carotid atherosclerosis defined as CIMT ≥ 1.1 mm; height quartiles: < 158.7 cm (Q1), 158.7 to 163.0 cm (Q2), 163.1 to 167.9 cm (Q3), and > 167.9 cm (Q4).

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