Height and mortality from cancer among men: prospective observational study

BMJ 1998;317:1351-1352 ( 14 November )

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Height and mortality from cancer among men: prospective observational study

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George Davey Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology, ^a Martin Shipley, senior lecturer in medical statistics, ^b David A Leon, reader in epidemiology. ^c

^a Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Bristol BS8 2PR, ^b Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, ^c Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT

Correspondence to: Professor Davey Smith zetkin@bristol.ac.uk

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Experiments in animals have shown that energy intake during the growth period is positively associated with the later incidenceof cancer.¹ Recently, direct evidence of an association betweenchildhood energy intake and adult mortality from cancer amonghumans was published in a report from the Boyd Orr cohort study.²Childhood energy intake was positively associated with mortalityfrom cancers not related to smoking, whereas there was no associationbetween energy intake and mortality from cancers related to smoking.²This is to be expected as the substantial effects of tobacco wouldmask any effects of childhood diet on cancers related tosmoking.

Height has been used in previous studies as a marker for energy intake in childhood,³ with the limited evidence indicatinga positive association for some cancer sites. ³ ⁴ ⁵ In theBoyd Orr study data were not available on smoking behaviour andwere limited on adulthood socioeconomic position.² We thereforeanalysed . . . [Full text of this article]

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