When does height start causing health issues?

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 6:59 pm

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Andre the giant died of a heart attack due to his enormous stature.Whats the maximum height you can achieve without an increased mortality rate?

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 7:37 pm

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Quote from: Juiceslikewine on May 17, 2018, 06:59:11 PMAndre the giant died of a heart attack due to his enormous stature.Whats the maximum height you can achieve without an increased mortality rate?

I think anything above 6'5" and you are at higher risk for complications with joints etc.

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 8:01 pm

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Being tall is also alsoassociated with increased cancer risk. Read below:

"Specifically, for every extra 5 cm in height the increased risk of the six cancers is as follows:

Kidney (10% increased risk)
Pre- and post-menopausal breast cancer (9% and 11% increased risk respectively)
Ovarian (8% increased risk)
Pancreatic (7% increased risk)
Colorectal (5% increased risk)
Prostate (4% increased risk)"

You can imagine what this mean for a person well above average height.

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 8:55 pm

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Quote from: ivan on May 17, 2018, 08:01:51 PMBeing tall is also alsoassociated with increased cancer risk. Read below:

"Specifically, for every extra 5 cm in height the increased risk of the six cancers is as follows:

Kidney (10% increased risk)
Pre- and post-menopausal breast cancer (9% and 11% increased risk respectively)
Ovarian (8% increased risk)
Pancreatic (7% increased risk)
Colorectal (5% increased risk)
Prostate (4% increased risk)"

You can imagine what this mean for a person well above average height.

Anecdotal opinion (though a study could easily be done on this subject), but this may be why you hardly ever find tall centanarians. They're mostly female (i.e. shorter than men), or males from shorter ethnic groups (Okinawans, Sardinians, Nicoyan Costa Ricans).

Most of us know about the high correlation between cancer and the older you get (assuming none in infancy/adolescence).

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 9:43 pm

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Why not consider the opposite spectrum, being short is associated with increased heart risks:

"Every 2.5 inches (6.35cm) less in height, there is a 13.5% increased risk of coronary heart disease or CHD (also known as coronary artery disease).

People who had the most height-increasing genetic markers were 26 percent less likely to have coronary artery disease than those with the fewest height-increasing genetic markers.

In 2010, a meta-analysis of 52 studies involving more than 3 million men and women found that shorter people had a higher risk of having deadly heart disease than tall people.

Blood pressure showed ‘significant inverse associations with height'

Shorter individuals have higher blood pressure levels than taller individuals

Men who were taller than 5 feet 10 inches had a 59 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men who were shorter than 5 feet 6 inches.

Cardiovascular disease, which is more common among shorter people, is also linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Lung transplant: Research suggests people 5 feet 3 inches or shorter wait longer for the organ and are more likely to die in the process than organ recipients with more average heights. "

Now how about mentally?

When does height start causing health issues?

When does height start causing health issues?

"A 2007 study, based on women's height and satisfaction, found that taller women were happier with their height compared to shorter women.

To be exact, those who were between 5'7" and 5'11" were the happiest, even though the average height of a woman is 5'4".

And men who 6'3" were also the happiest, but any taller than that and their happiness dipped."

I gotta say the height range between 6'10"-6'11" astonished me, ignoring the disparity the taller ones are still happier than people of average and short height.

Lol the narrative of that article didn't even say anything about short men and their happiness just how you can boost it with exercises (cope) , how kind (disingenuous) of them.

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Why not consider the opposite spectrum, being short is associated with increased heart risks:

"Every 2.5 inches (6.35cm) less in height, there is a 13.5% increased risk of coronary heart disease or CHD (also known as coronary artery disease).

People who had the most height-increasing genetic markers were 26 percent less likely to have coronary artery disease than those with the fewest height-increasing genetic markers.

In 2010, a meta-analysis of 52 studies involving more than 3 million men and women found that shorter people had a higher risk of having deadly heart disease than tall people.

Blood pressure showed ‘significant inverse associations with height'

Shorter individuals have higher blood pressure levels than taller individuals

Men who were taller than 5 feet 10 inches had a 59 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men who were shorter than 5 feet 6 inches.

Cardiovascular disease, which is more common among shorter people, is also linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Lung transplant: Research suggests people 5 feet 3 inches or shorter wait longer for the organ and are more likely to die in the process than organ recipients with more average heights. "

Now how about mentally?

"A 2007 study, based on women's height and satisfaction, found that taller women were happier with their height compared to shorter women.

To be exact, those who were between 5'7" and 5'11" were the happiest, even though the average height of a woman is 5'4".

And men who 6'3" were also the happiest, but any taller than that and their happiness dipped."

I gotta say the height range between 6'10"-6'11" astonished me, ignoring the disparity the taller ones are still happier than people of average and short height.

Lol the narrative of that article didn't even say anything about short men and their happiness just how you can boost it with exercises (cope) , how kind (disingenuous) of them.

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 10:03 pm

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Quote from: ZUCC420 on May 17, 2018, 09:43:57 PMWhy not consider the opposite spectrum, being short is associated with increased heart risks:

"Every 2.5 inches (6.35cm) less in height, there is a 13.5% increased risk of coronary heart disease or CHD (also known as coronary artery disease).

People who had the most height-increasing genetic markers were 26 percent less likely to have coronary artery disease than those with the fewest height-increasing genetic markers.

In 2010, a meta-analysis of 52 studies involving more than 3 million men and women found that shorter people had a higher risk of having deadly heart disease than tall people.

Blood pressure showed ‘significant inverse associations with height'

Shorter individuals have higher blood pressure levels than taller individuals

Men who were taller than 5 feet 10 inches had a 59 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men who were shorter than 5 feet 6 inches.

Cardiovascular disease, which is more common among shorter people, is also linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Lung transplant: Research suggests people 5 feet 3 inches or shorter wait longer for the organ and are more likely to die in the process than organ recipients with more average heights. "

Why do you bother reading that crap when you're short?

And heart disease is the #1 killer in the US, but its future (to just cite one route) as the killer is a joke compared to cancers. Alzheimer's also finally in the works.

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 10:16 pm

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Hearth problems are >90% associated with lifestyle choices, while a good portion of cancers are not. Shorter people seem to be just more prone to them. Cancer on the other hand is a disease that is harder to treat and cure rates are very low.

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 10:35 pm

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Interesting that the height satisfaction chart is a direct correlation, almost a mirror image, to the height percentile chart. For example 25% of 5'7 men are satisfied with their height and they are basically in the 25th percentile height group. 75% of 5'11 men are happy with their height, and that is also more or less where the 75th percentile height range falls.

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Posted on May 17, 2018, 10:39 pm

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Quote from: myloginacct on May 17, 2018, 10:03:04 PMWhy do you bother reading that crap when you're short?

So that I can avoid biases, there are lots of articles about tall height causing cancer, transport vehicles being incommodious, mortality ,etc.

What about the Opposite?

Besides knowing more about myself, the discernment might probably save my life in the future while reducing the chances of getting these diseases.

The same can be said to our counterparts, but I doubt they search any of these, I speculate that short people are more likely to search about the disease and health complications involving tall people rather the contrary.

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Posted on May 18, 2018, 12:23 pm

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I would estimate that short peope having more risks for certain diseases is correlation without causation. People who grow up very unhealthy are more likely not to become tall and people in poorer families also tend to be shorter. Growing up in bad health as well as poor economic status increase the chance for these diseases and illnesses. Otherwise, I don't see how having shorter limbs and bones would make it more likely for your heart to fail - that wouldn't make sense.

The survey is pretty interesting though. Amazing that even at 5'10'', only 50% of the men questioned seem satisfied with their height. Does it have to do with societal expectations on masculinity, with our shallow society, heightism, women's preferences, or a combination? It's also a morbid fact that this tendency will hardly be covered by any large media outlet, while women being unsatisfied with their appearance will get massive attention in mass media.

QuoteI gotta say the height range between 6'10"-6'11" astonished me, ignoring the disparity the taller ones are still happier than people of average and short height.

That might just be sample bias. Perhaps the number of very tall men who were questioned was rather small.

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