個子矮的俺們又美了---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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• 你讓我呆了一下。我一直以為你挺高大的，哈哈。 -toast2011- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 11:05:55

• 嘻嘻，比較肥，不高。是不是俺形象很高大呀。哢哢。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 11:13:01

• 那是了，親愛的豬腳，尤其是在咱們班哈。 -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

• 老人都說：那是讓知識給壓得。。。 -金迷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 18:29:28

• 沒有想到女人患癌症的機率還與高矮有關，謝分享。 -紓珈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 13:19:39

• 回複：個子矮的俺們又美了---Tall women more likely to get cancer, study finds -i999- ♀ (49 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 21:58:28

• 不 同 意，中國人個子沒有西方人高，患癌比例好像是第一。 -夏漁- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 22:51:34

• 估計夏漁同學個子高挑。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/21/2011 postreply 23:36:14

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

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