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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:1110-1111
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Paediatric Epidemiology

Commentary: The association between height growth and cholesterol levels during puberty: implications for adult health

Rebecca Hardy and Claudia Langenberg

MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free & University College London Medical School, 1–19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-mail: rebecca.hardy@ucl.ac.uk

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High cholesterol is an important risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). It is involved in the development of atherosclerotic changes of the arterial wall, which have been shown to begin at an early age, even in apparently healthy children and adolescents.1 Levels of cholesterol and other cardiovascular risk factors in childhood are also known to track into adult life and influence subsequent subclinical and clinical cardiovascular disease.2 Studies of predictors of childhood cholesterol are therefore of importance for primary prevention and may help to identify those particularly susceptible to later hyperlipidaemia, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease at an . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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