This article talks about the higher risk for shorter people to suffer from coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease is when the arteries become tighten when they transfer blood to the heart because of an increase of plaque. In the article they state that narrowed is the principal cause of early on deaths in the world. Professor SirNilesh Samani from the British Heart Foundation have found that for over 60 years there is an inverse relationship between hight and For more than 60 years it has been known that there is an inverse connection between height and risk of coronary heart disease. But it is still unclear in this relationship can also be due because of cofounding factors such as malnutrition. In the new research done by professor Sir Nilesh Samani they have found that the risk involving coronary heart disease and height are not associated with confounding factors, The study collected from 200,000 participants their genetic data, the participant vary from having and not having the disease also looked at genetic variations that influence on coronary heart disease and height. The researchers found that a change in height of 2.5 inch can increase the chances of coronary heart disease by a 13.5%, also found that cholesterol it's associated with the connection between coronary heart disease and height.
This article was interesting and a "good to know" thing. As being a very shirt person it is scary to think my height could cause me to have heart problems. It is informative and though there are other causes of Coronary Heart disease it is intriguing to know that something as small as height could put you at greater risk for heart diseases.
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