Victor M. Hawthorne

TL;DR: Assessment of the influence of socioeconomic position over a lifetime on risk factors for cardiovascular disease, on morbidity, and on mortality from various causes found participants' social class at the time of screening was more strongly associated than the other social class indicators with mortality from cancer and from non-cardiovascular, non-cancer causes.

TL;DR: Both the area-based deprivation indicator and individual social class were associated with generally less favourable profiles of cardiovascular disease risk factors at the time of the baseline screening examinations.

TL;DR: An increased risk of diabetic end-stage renal disease among blacks as compared with whites, particularly blacks with NIDDM is indicated, although the risk of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus disease is higher in patients with IDDM, the majority of patients with Diabetes mellitus in the population the authors studied had NID DM.

TL;DR: The assumption that the BMI is independent of stature is not quite true for adults and especially not true for children, and for some age groups, at least, it may be a better measure of amount oflean than of relative fatness.

TL;DR: height serves partly as an indicator of socioeconomic circumstances and nutritional status in childhood and this may underlie the inverse associations between height and adulthood cardiorespiratory mortality.