Total, haemorrhagic and ischaemic stroke by height in men and women from the Renfrew/Paisley study in 20 years of follow up. (Stroke defined as hospital discharge with a main diagnosis of stroke)
| Height quintile (cm) | Trend | RR associated with 10 cm increase in height | |||||
| For men | ⩽163 | 164–167 | 168–170 | 171–174 | ⩾175 | ||
| For women | ⩽152 | 153–155 | 156–158 | 159–162 | ⩾163 | ||
| Number | 2919 | 2737 | 2911 | 3483 | 3343 | ||
| All stroke 1-152 | |||||||
| Number of strokes | 241 | 210 | 192 | 210 | 174 | ||
| Relative rate1-150 | 1 | 0.96 (0.80 to 1.15) | 0.82 (0.68 to 1.00) | 0.77 (0.64 to 0.93) | 0.70 (0.57 to 0.85) | p<0.0001 | 0.80 (0.73 to 0.88) |
| Relative rate1-151 | 1 | 0.98 (0.81 to 1.18) | 0.86 (0.71 to 1.05) | 0.81 (0.67 to 0.97) | 0.73 (0.60 to 0.89) | p=0.0001 | 0.82 (0.75 to 0.91) |
| Haemorrhagic 1-153 | |||||||
| Number of strokes | 21 | 22 | 19 | 16 | 12 | ||
| Relative rate1-150 | 1 | 1.16 (0.64 to 2.11) | 0.93 (0.50 to 1.73) | 0.66 (0.34 to 1.26) | 0.54 (0.26 to 1.10) | p=0.034 | 0.70 (0.51 to 0.97) |
| Relative rate1-151 | 1 | 1.17 (0.64 to 2.12) | 0.96 (0.51 to 1.80) | 0.68 (0.35 to 1.31) | 0.55 (0.27 to 1.14) | p=0.05 | 0.72 (0.52 to 1.00) |
| Ischaemic 1-155 | |||||||
| Number of strokes | 43 | 47 | 51 | 53 | 45 | ||
| Relative rate1-150 | 1 | 1.16 (0.77 to 1.76) | 1.17 (0.78 to 1.75) | 1.02 (0.68 to 1.53) | 0.91 (0.60 to 1.39) | p=0.16 | 0.87 (0.71 to 1.06) |
| Relative rate1-151 | 1 | 1.19 (0.78 to 1.80) | 1.21 (0.81 to 1.83) | 1.06 (0.71 to 1.59) | 0.95 (0.62 to 1.45) | p=0.21 | 0.88 (0.72 to 1.08) |
| Ill defined | |||||||
| Number of strokes | 177 | 141 | 122 | 141 | 117 | ||
| Relative rate1-150 | 1 | 0.89 (0.71 to 1.11) | 0.72 (0.57 to 0.91) | 0.72 (0.58 to 0.90) | 0.66 (0.52 to 0.84) | p=0.0001 | 0.79 (0.70 to 0.89) |
| Relative rate1-151 | 1 | 0.91 (0.73 to 1.13) | 0.77 (0.61 to 0.97) | 0.76 (0.61 to 0.95) | 0.70 (0.55 to 0.89) | p=0.0009 | 0.82 (0.73 to 0.92) |
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↵1-150 Adjusted for age and sex.
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↵1-151 Adjusted for age, sex, smoking, diastolic blood pressure, cholesterol, social class and pre-existing CHD.
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↵1-152 International classification of disease, eighth and ninth revisions (ICD-8) and (ICD-9) codes 430–438;
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↵1-153 ICD-8: 430 and 431, and ICD-9: 430–432;
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↵1-155 ICD-8: 432–435 and 437, and ICD-9: 433–435.
