https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/24/tall-people-at-greater-risk-of-cancer-because-they-have-more-cells
I am not sure if their conclusion about number of cells is correct. I suspect there are other factors.
I've mentioned this before, but the longest living people in Europe are not where you'd expect them to be: somewhere in Scandinavia, due to the high standards of living and healthcare. Instead, they're located in Sardinia; Sardinians are also among the shortest, if not the shortest, Europeans.
None of the other "Blue Zones" have a tall average height, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
There are some hypotheses out there that women live longer than men merely due to shorter height, on average, when compared to men.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-sardinian-men-height-factor-longevity.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205712/
Quote[...] Potential explanatory factors in this first group also include anthropometric differences often observed between males and females. The difference in average height between male and female may be lower in the Blue Zone population, while the average body mass index of females may be relatively higher compared to males. If these two hypotheses are confirmed this would lead to a longevity advantage for males as some studies have shown that there is an inverse relationship between both height and body mass index and longevity [52, 53]. Evidence derived from military conscripts shows a shorter height on average for men in the Blue Zone compared to those in the whole of Sardinia [...]
Anyway, most of us would rather be taller than live long as short men.
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