1, female height is healthy.
1. Short people have a low risk of cancer. Dr Jeffrey Cabat, an epidemiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in new york City, found that the risk of any cancer increased by 10 cm for every increase in female height. One theory is that tall people may have higher levels of insulin growth factor, which is related to the growth of hormones and cancer, Dr. Cabat said. Another theory is that tall people have more cells as a whole because their organs are bigger, which leads to a higher probability of mutation of some of them.
2. The risk of thrombosis will increase with you. If the female height is less than 157 cm and her weight is normal, the risk of thrombosis will be reduced by 3 times. According to the research of Tromso University in Norway, the heart of tall women pumps blood for a longer time, which leads to a decrease in blood flow and an increase in the risk of stroke thrombosis.
Short people live longer. According to Albert Einstein Medical College, genes related to longevity are also related to short stature. Researchers have found that gene mutations that inhibit insulin-like growth factors seem to prolong life.
4. A tall heart is healthier. A recent British study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that women who are taller than 173 cm are 28% less likely to suffer from heart disease than women who are taller than 160 cm. The researchers found that the risk of heart disease was reduced by about 14% when the height was 6.35 cm. Because the genes associated with short people also increase the risk of rising low-density cholesterol levels, which in turn increases the risk of heart disease.
5. The risk of dementia is reduced. The preliminary results of a study by the University of Edinburgh show that women with a height of170cm are about 50% less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than women with a height of155cm. Scientists believe that many factors leading to short stature, such as childhood illness, stress and malnutrition, are the deep-seated reasons for this phenomenon.
6. Tall people have a lower risk of gestational diabetes. City University of new york has studied more than 220,000 pregnant women, and found that expectant mothers with a height of 1.68cm have a lower risk of gestational diabetes than those with a height of 1.57cm ... The researchers have not found out the specific reasons, and they speculate that this may be because the genes related to height also affect glucose tolerance.
2. Look at the condition from a height.
1, tall women and cancer
20 1 1 In July, the authoritative journal The Lancet-Oncology published a study, which caused extensive discussion. According to the article, during the period of 1996-200 1, the researchers persuaded nearly 1.3 million middle-aged women in Britain to participate in a long-term health follow-up study. Through follow-up, the researchers not only calculated the total incidence of cancer in the population, but also counted the incidence of 17 kinds of cancer in women of different heights according to the location of the disease. Statistics show that the relative risk of cancer increases 10 cm for every centimeter of height increase. Compared with the shortest group below 155cm, the relative risk of cancer in the highest group above 175cm increased by 37%.
The relative risk of cancer increases by 30%! Well, these data look really scary. Although careful analysis shows that the relative risk of 30% seems amazing, in fact, the absolute risk of cancer is only about 0.2% every year, but it still shows that there is a certain relationship between female height and cancer.
The study mentioned above is a relatively large study on height recently reported. In fact, around 2009, there were quite a few reports in this regard. For example, the following Relationship between Body and Disease lists some relationships between height and disease.
2. What kind of cancer do tall people get easily?
Breast cancer: Women over 175 cm are very prone to breast cancer and die. One reason is that hormones that affect women's height will increase the mammary duct tissue in the breast. This tissue is where most breast tumors occur, so the more catheters, the easier it is to get breast cancer.
Pancreatic cancer: The incidence of pancreatic cancer in men over 185 cm and women over 168 cm increased by 8 1%. This may be because hormones that make people grow taller also increase the chances of cancer cells growing.
3. What kind of cancer do short people get easily?
Heart disease: Men shorter than 170 cm are more likely to suffer from heart disease than men taller than 185 cm. The reason is that short men's blood vessels are correspondingly narrowed, which is more likely to block, thus causing heart disease.
Gastric cancer: Gastric cancer is related to Helicobacter pylori infection, and this virus is also the direct cause of gastric ulcer. If you are infected with Helicobacter pylori in childhood, it will lead to slower growth.
Abnormal height and disease
In addition to the above reports, there are some data suggesting to pay attention to the relationship between height abnormality and disease. For example, the musculoskeletal development defects of dwarfism patients, dementia with growth stagnation and mental retardation as the main symptoms, patients with tall and thin Marfan syndrome and so on.
4. Age and height
Johann strauss, a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, believes that there is an important correlation between height and health. Not only the early life will affect the aging state and height of the human body, but also the health decision-making in the later life will have an impact on it. Shortness is a natural phenomenon after human aging, and its causes include muscle loss, flattening of arch, loss of body fluid between lumbar intervertebral discs, osteoporosis, narrowing of lumbar intervertebral space and so on. Too much "shrinkage" in height will increase the risk of human fracture and male heart disease, and it is also related to cognitive impairment (such as memory loss).