个子矮的俺们又美了---Tall women more likely to get cancer, study finds

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-cancer-tall-women-20110721,0,6080011.story

 

One instance in which height doesn't give you the advantage—women high in stature are at greater risk for cancer than their vertically challenged peers.

A new study finds that for every 4 inches, a woman’s risk of developing cancer increases by 16%.

The association between cancer and height isn’t new, but the new findings confirm it in a large study and for a wide array of cancers. British researchers assessed data from nearly 1.3 million women enrolled in the Million Women Study; as the women were followed for about nine years, about 97,000 cancers were found.

Even after taking into account factors such as socioeconomic status, alcohol use and body-mass index, researchers found that cancer risk significantly increased with height for 10 out of 17 cancer sites studied. The increased risk was greatest for skin cancer (32%), kidney cancer (29%) and leukemia (26%). And risk of breast cancer, the most common cancer in the study, increased 17% with every 4 inches of height.

The new study was published online Thursday in The Lancet Oncology.

But tall people needn’t fret over the hand they’ve been dealt. The study’s lead author Jane Green of the University of Oxford, said in a news release:

"Of course people cannot change their height. And being taller has actually been linked to a lower risk of other conditions, such as heart disease."

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• 你让我呆了一下。我一直以为你挺高大的，哈哈。 -toast2011- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 11:05:55

• 嘻嘻，比较肥，不高。是不是俺形象很高大呀。咔咔。 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 11:13:01

• 那是了，亲爱的猪脚，尤其是在咱们班哈。 -toast2011- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 11:32:20

• I belong to the "short people club", and I am a mutant in my fam -NewVoice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 11:41:49

• and I am a mutant in my family. -NewVoice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 12:24:03

• 老人都说：那是让知识给压得。。。 -金迷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 18:29:28

• 没有想到女人患癌症的机率还与高矮有关，谢分享。 -纾珈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 13:19:39

• 回复：个子矮的俺们又美了---Tall women more likely to get cancer, study finds -i999- ♀ (49 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 21:58:28

• 不 同 意，中国人个子没有西方人高，患癌比例好像是第一。 -夏渔- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 22:51:34

• 估计夏渔同学个子高挑。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 23:36:14

• Is this because taller people in general have more cells -同学小薇- ♀ (63 bytes) () 07/22/2011 postreply 08:42:55

• Excellent point! -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/22/2011 postreply 18:59:32