Table 1

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 rate^1-150	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 rate^1-151	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 rate^1-150	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 rate^1-151	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 rate^1-150	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 rate^1-151	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 rate^1-150	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 rate^1-151	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)

↵1-150 Adjusted for age and sex.
↵1-151 Adjusted for age, sex, smoking, diastolic blood pressure, cholesterol, social class and pre-existing CHD.
↵1-152 International classification of disease, eighth and ninth revisions (ICD-8) and (ICD-9) codes 430–438;
↵1-153 ICD-8: 430 and 431, and ICD-9: 430–432;
↵1-155 ICD-8: 432–435 and 437, and ICD-9: 433–435.