Raphael Goldman-Pham, Matthew P Alter, Rebecca Bao, Sophie É Collins, Catherine L Debban, James P Allinson, Antony Ambler, Alain G Bertoni, Avshalom Caspi, Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, Magnus P Ekstrom, James C Engert, David R Jacobs, Daniel Malinsky, Ani Manichaikul, Erin D Michos, Terrie E Moffitt, Elizabeth C Oelsner, Sandhya Ramrakha, Stephen S Rich, Coralynn Sack, Sanja Stanojevic, Padmaja Subbarao, Karen Sugden, Reremoana Theodore, Karol E Watson, Benjamin Williams, Bin Yang, Josée Dupuis, Seif O Shaheen, R Graham Barr, Robert J Hancox, Benjamin M Smith
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Abstract
Background: Early-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.
Methods: Data were first analyzed from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) and UKBiobank. Genotype-predicted height was calculated using a multi-ancestry polygenic height score. Height-GaP was calculated as the difference between measured and genotype-predicted adult height. Early-life growth conditions were ascertained prospectively via standardized procedures (ALSPAC) and mortality via death register (UKBiobank). Regression models adjusted for age, sex, genotype-predicted height and genetic ancestry. Analyses were replicated in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (DMHDS) and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
Findings: Among 4,582 ALSPAC participants (median [IQR] age: 24[18-25] years at height-GaP assessment), lower gestational age at birth, greater pre- and post-natal deprivation indices, tobacco smoke exposure and less breastfeeding were associated with larger adult height-GaP deficit (p<0.01). Among 483,385 UKBiobank participants (mean±SD age: 56±8 years at height-GaP assessment), height-GaP deficit was associated with death from all-causes (adjusted hazard ratio comparing highest-to-lowest height-GaP deficit quartile [aHR]:1.25 95%CI:1.21-1.29), atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (aHR:1.33 95%CI:1.24-1.43) and coronary heart disease (aHR:1.68 95%CI:1.52-1.86). Early- and later-life height-GaP associations replicated in DMHDS and MESA.
Interpretation: This study introduces a simple index of early-life growth adversity deployable in adulthood to investigate the developmental origins of longevity and improve health equity across the life course.
Funding: Federal agencies and academic institutions.
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