Adjusted associations of age at earliest death of a parent with cardiovascular risk factors, seated height and delayed 10-word recall score in 28,771 older Chinese men and women in recruitment phases 1, 2 and 3 of The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (2003–8).

<p>†Model 1 adjusted for age, sex and the interaction of age and sex.</p><p>Model 2 additionally adjusted for father's job type, leg length, education, job type, smoking, use of alcohol and physical activity.</p><p>Model 3 additionally adjusted for body mass index and waist-hip ratio.</p><p>*only available in recruitment phases 1 and 3 for 5285 men and 14150 women.</p><p> <b>Bold type indicates statistical significance.</b></p

Characteristics by early life parental death in 26,820 older Chinese men and women in recruitment phases 1, 2 and 3 of The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (2003–8).

<p>†health enhancing physical activity, i.e. vigorous activity at least 3 days a week achieving at least 1500 MET minutes per week or activity on 7 days of the week achieving at least 3000 MET minutes per week.</p><p>‡Manual occupations are agricultural worker, factory work or sales and service; non-manual are administrator/manager, professional/technical, military/disciplined.</p

Adjusted associations of early life parental death with cardiovascular risk factors, seated height and delayed 10-word recall score in 28,771 older Chinese men and women in recruitment phases 1, 2 and 3 of The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (2003–8).

<p>†Model 1 adjusted for age, sex and the interaction of age and sex.</p><p>Model 2 additionally adjusted for father's job type, leg length, education, job type, smoking, use of alcohol and physical activity.</p><p>Model 3 additionally adjusted for body mass index and waist-hip ratio.</p><p>*only available in recruitment phases 1 and 3 for 5285 men and 14150 women.</p><p> <b>Bold type indicates statistical significance.</b></p

Sex-specific adjusted associations of early life parental death with HDL-cholesterol, waist-hip ratio and white blood cell count in 28,771 older Chinese men and women in recruitment phases 1, 2 and 3 of The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (2003–8).

<p>†Model 1 adjusted for age.</p><p>Model 2 additionally adjusted for father's job type, leg length, education, job type, smoking, use of alcohol and physical activity.</p><p>Model 3 additionally adjusted for body mass index and waist-hip ratio.</p><p>*only available in recruitment phases 1 and 3 for 5285 men and 14150 women.</p><p> <b>Bold type indicates statistical significance.</b></p