Height Related Diseases

Just like weight loss, then the height has always been associated with various health problems. Here are four types of diseases associated with height, reported by ABCNews, Thursday (5/4).

Cancer

Research shows that women have higher a higher risk of ovarian cancer. The findings are based on data from 47 studies involving more than 100 thousand women. Each 5 cm increase in height, the risk of cancer rose to 7 percent.

Other studies in the month of June 2011 and published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found a woman have an increased risk of high 10 types of cancer, including breast and skin. While men are higher risk of prostate cancer.

Heart disease

A recent study reviewing 52 studies involving more than 3 million people and found that short people have a 50 percent greater risk of developing heart disease than people berpostur tinngi body.

Another study in 2006 and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that identical twins who died from coronary heart disease tend to be shorter than his twin brother. This study shows that the risk of heart disease can be caused by environmental factors that influence height rather than genetic factors.

Alzheimer's

This disease is a common cause of dementia in the parents' problems. This risk increases with age and genetic factors. However, according to a study in 2007, higher risk of Alzheimer's in people of short stature.

This study of 239 Alzheimer's patients compared with 341 healthy people. The results showed that men with a height of more than 5 feet 10 inches has a 59 percent lower risk of Alzheimer's compared with the high man 5 feet 6 inches.

Diabetes

If type 2 diabetes related to body weight, then type 1 diabetes associated with height. The higher the person appears to have increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes.

Until now the cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown. However, researchers believe this is caused by an autoimmune attack that attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.