The Height, between Heart Attacks and Cancer

A study revealed that a person's height is often associated with susceptible to a disease from heart attacks to cancer.

Reported by ABC News, 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. Every five cm increase in height, the risk of cancer rose to seven 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.

Not only that, Dailymail reported, the more cells that can develop into cancer cells. Growth hormone may also play a role of triggering cancer, investigators clear as published in the journal PLoS Medicine.

Dr Paul Pharoah from Cambridge University, women who tend to be taller and heavier than its predecessor deals with the threat of ovarian cancer.

However, the overall risk of this disease is still small. Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women, with more than 6,500 cases diagnosed each year in the UK.

Two-thirds of women diagnosed with this disease because the symptoms are not helped early stage is not detected until it began to spread throughout the body.

Age and not having a child becomes a factor that also increases the risk of uterine cancer. While the contraceptive pill helps protect the health of female reproductive organs.

In addition to ovarian cancer, height also increases the risk of other cancers including breast cancer. But the researchers stressed the need to conduct further study to observe this association.

Meanwhile, in addition to cancer, height is often associated with a heart attack. It is trying to prove by a recent study reviewing 52 studies involving more than three million people.

They found that short people have a 50% greater risk of developing heart disease than people high posture 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.