Health Findings in Focus

Author: Joe Huggins

Seattle Denver Center for Innovation (COIN) is a VA research center located in Seattle and Denver. We conduct health services research that advances Veteran-centered and value-driven healthcare. Our research focuses on the healthcare needs of Veterans with complex chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart failure, depression, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
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What does height have to do with disease risk
Episode 1
Sunday, 17 July, 2022

On this episode of Health Findings in Focus our Investigator Dr. Sridharan Raghavan talks about his recent paper, “A multi-population phenome-wide association study of genetically-predicted height in the Million Veteran Program”. The paper draws on data from the VA Million Veteran Program, which is a national research program to learn how genes, lifestyle, and military exposures affect health and illness. Listen to learn how height might play a role in certain diseases and what this research means.