How Your Height Affects Your Health
The Long and Short of It
Cancer
Diabetes
Heart Disease
Stroke
Blood Clot
Alzheimer’s Disease
Pregnancy
Hair Loss
Longer Life
Heat Exhaustion
Lower Back and Hips
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SOURCES:
CDC: “National Center for Health Statistics: Body Measurements.”
PLOS Medicine: “Ovarian Cancer and Body Size: Individual Participant Meta-Analysis Including 25,157 Women with Ovarian Cancer from 47 Epidemiological Studies.”
American Association for Cancer Research: “Height and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Large Nested Case-Control Study (ProtecT) and Meta-analysis.”
American Diabetes Association: “Is Femur Length the Key Height Component in Risk Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Among Adults?”
European Heart Journal: “Short stature is associated with coronary heart disease: a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis.”
National Stroke Association: “What Is Stroke?”
Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases: “Adult Height and Body Mass Index in Relation to Risk of Total Stroke and its Subtypes: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study.”
American Society of Hematology: “Blood Clots.”
American Heart Association: “Can height increase risk for blood clots in veins?”
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease: “Height and Alzheimer's disease: findings from a case-control study.”