Being short ups heart disease risk

1. Being short ups heart disease
risk
For Every 2.5 Inches Of Height, Vulnerability Reduces By 13.5%
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2. Contd..
To the surprise of researchers who had thought the ve ry notion a joke, an international
consortium of investigators reported on Wednesday that shorter stature increases the risk
of heart disease. After gathering genetic data from nearly 200,000 men and women
worldwide, the investigators found that each 2.5 inches of height brings a 13.5% reduction
in heart disease risk.
The relationship is present throughout the range of adult heights. A person who is five feet
tall has a 30% greater chance of developing heart disease than someone who is 5 feet 6,
said a lead author of the new study , Nilesh Samani, a professor of cardiology at the
University of Leicester in England. Of course, the increased risk pales in comparison to that
caused by smoking, which elevates the odds of getting heart disease by 200 to 300%. There
is nothing people can do about their height, but the researchers hope the finding will lead
to the discovery of new links to heart disease. The study surprised the experts the most,
although they have known about a purported association between height and heart
disease for over half a century . It was first pointed out in 1951 by president Dwight D
Eisenhower's physician Dr Paul Dudley White. He observed that 97 men and three women
who had a heart attack before age 40 were two inches shorter on average than 146 healthy
men.
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Since then, experts have noted that shorter people are more likely
to get heart disease, even after accounting for such risk factors as
smoking and cholesterol, diabetes and obesity . But few took the
finding seriously . Height was just a marker for some other problem
causing heart disease, most scientists said -perhaps a poor diet, or
infectious diseases in childhood that led to a lifelong weakness of
the heart.
“This idea that shorter stature is associated with coronary artery
disease is something we would laugh about,“ said Dr Michael Lauer,
director of cardiovascular sciences at the National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute in USA. “We would think about it as yet another
example of epidemiology going amok.“
Dr Samani and his colleagues realized that if there was a real link,
genetic variations that resulted in short stature would also result in a
greater risk of heart disease.
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