yes..........it's true...............becoz the heart has to work
so hard pumping blood to the rest of the ''longer'' body
parts..............the dick has to pay the ultimate
price................
however, shorter guys have another problem...............one
testicle is much smaller than the other.............
ok, now try this:
Study Shows Greater Risk of Heart Attacks and Earlier
Death for Short People
By Kathleen
Doheny
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Laura
J. Martin, MD
June 8, 2010 -- Short people have a higher risk of heart health
problems than tall people, according to a new study.
"The shorter you are, the higher risk you have of developing
cardiovascular disease," says Tuula Paajanen, MD, a researcher at
the University of Tampere, Finland.
Short people, she found, also had an increased risk of heart
attacks and earlier death than taller people. Overall, she says,
the risk of getting heart
disease and dying from it early is 1.5 times higher for short
people than for tall people.
The report, in which Paajanen analyzes 52 previously published
studies, is published in the European Heart Journal.
For nearly 60 years, researchers have debated a potential link
between height and heart disease, with the first report finding
short people at a health disadvantage published in 1951.
So Paajanen and her team did medical literature searches,
selecting the most scientifically sound studies -- totaling 52 --
from the 1,907 articles she found on the topic. In all, more than 3
million people were included in the 52 studies they reviewed.
Short and tall are relative, of course, so for the review
Paajanen compared the tallest groups with the shortest groups,
defining each.
After analyzing all 52 studies, Paajanen found an increased risk
for health problems and earlier death for the shortest group
compared to the tallest.
Exactly why the shortest people had more heart disease and
earlier death than the tallest isn't known, but Paajanen can
speculate. "My favorite hypothesis is that shorter people would
have narrower arteries, because this hypothesis hasn't been studied
very much. In recent studies using angiographic measurements, the
coronary artery diameter was correlated with height and body
weight, so there might be a point to it," she tells WebMD.
The smaller arteries, she speculates, may be occluded earlier in
life, leading to heart disease, due to factors such as poorer
socioeconomic background and poor nutrition,
for instance.
Paajanen says that her results suggest that "height may be
considered a possible independent factor" when physicians are
calculating a person's heart disease risk.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=117012
