Study: Short people have higher heart risk

cnn. ^ | June 9, 2010 | Sarah Klein

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Deb]

But they’re necessary if normal-sized people are to have reliable armrests.

[brytlea]

Short people got, no reason to, short people got, no reason to, short people got, no reason to live.....
Randy Newman

[justlurking]

Dennis Kucinich, D-OH.

[bgill]

Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
To live

[libertarian27]

Short people need to be taxed more, their stature, or lack there of, is a drain on the Nationalized Health Care Systems.../s

[TexasCajun]

Is there a Vertically Challanged Hotline to call?

But Obamah promised me hope?

[ladyvet]

My husband says he loves that I’m sort. He also said the top of my head makes a great place to put his beer while looking for the remote.

[Always Independent]

I’m not short, I just ain’t tall!

[dinoparty]

Although I see lots of short older men, but very few very tall older men. Am I crazy?

(By the way, I am 6’4”.)

[Paved Paradise]

I find this very interesting. I have never seen old TALL people. My father told me that tall people die younger and I have read a lot of medical info that supports that as well.

My husband’s family are all very, very short statured. Nice, short Italians. Longevity runs in the family on both of his sides too. His father’s father lived to be 100 and his mother’s father died in his 90s. The only relative who died before the late 80s was my mother-in-law’s mother who died in her twenties (back in 1928).

I guess I just don’t believe this one article.

[Paved Paradise]

No. You are not. I just posted something similar. I have read medical evidence that it’s tall people who do not live long. I joked that it’s like dogs. Little dogs live way longer than big dogs.

[trisham]

I’m 5’6’’. Whew!

[James C. Bennett]

And yet the Japanese live longer than most, and have the least heart attacks, comparatively...

[fr_freak]

Although I see lots of short older men, but very few very tall older men. Am I crazy?

Maybe they just shrink.

[The_Victor]

The study is not about longevity, just heart disease. Your observation and the study can both be true.

[PatriotCJC]

I’m F*cked

[Deb]

You're not really supposed to take articles like this seriously. This is where you're supposed to post rabbits with pancakes on their heads and kittens nursing lion cubs. But I know many, many old tall guys and I much prefer them to old short men because (wait for it...wait for it) they've seen more! Get it?

In reference to your dog observation, large dogs have shorter lives because they do all the work and technically small dogs are, in fact, rats and therefore disqualified.

You're welcome.

[TheRake]

Study: People who do stupid studies, are dumber than those that don’t.