A new research suggests that short people are more prone to risk of developing heart disease. Men who are below 5ft 4in or 165.4cm and women below 5ft or 153cm are considered as short and are more at risk. On the basis of their analysis over three million people researchers found that shorter people were 1.5 times more prone to develop and die from heart disease than tall adults.
In a study by Finnish team, it is suggested that shorter people may have smaller blood vessels to the heart which can block more easily. Other factor that can inhibit growth is poor nutrition during childhood could play a key role. There was found a strong link between height and heart disease when evaluating fifty-two separate studies by the University of Tampere team.
Height is only one factor that may contribute to risk of heart disease. People have no control over their height but they can control their weight as well as lifestyle hobbits like drinking, smoking and exercise. All these factors affect their heart disease risk, said lead researcher Dr Tuula Paajanen.
More research is needed into this weird connection, even as height is used to calculate the Body Mass Index which might help to indicate a risk of heart disease. But there are other factors to take into account such as diabetes, obesity high cholesterol and high blood pressure said Fotini Rozakeas, cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation.
She further said it is not matter if you are tall or short or somewhere in between but it is still important to do regular exercise, stop smoking, control your weight and eat healthy diet in order to protect your heart health.