While height doesn’t cause any health conditions, studies show it may make you more or less likely to have certain problems.
: “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 and Meta-analysis.” American Diabetes Association: “Is Femur Length the Key Height Component in Risk Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Among Adults?”: “Short stature is associated with coronary heart disease: a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis.”: “Adult Height and Body Mass Index in Relation to Risk of Total Stroke and its Subtypes: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study.
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