Quantifying the impact of early life growth adversity on later life health

BackgroundEarly-life growth adversity is important to later-life health, but precision assessment in adulthood is challenging. We evaluated whether the difference between attained and genotype-predicted adult height (“height-GaP”) would associate with prospectively ascertained early-life growth adversity and later-life all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.MethodsData were first analyzed from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children …