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Home / News / Height shown to have health implications

Height shown to have health implications


18 October 2007 14:52:22



Short people may want to have another look at critical illness cover as research has revealed that they are more likely to claim poor health.

Compared to tall people, the diminutive section of the population appear to be worse off both mentally and physically, according to a study of 14,000 adults in England.

Furthermore the Clinical Endocrinology journal reported that the shorter the individual, the more pronounced the finding.

Respondents had their height measured after filling out a health-related quality of life questionnaire on five areas including mobility, anxiety or depressive symptoms and any pain or discomfort they normally experienced.

It was revealed that those in the shortest categories considered themselves to have lower quality of life than their taller counterparts.

"Although our study does not show that short height directly causes a reduction in physical and mental health, it does indicate that short people are more likely to feel that they experience a lower health-related quality of life," commented senior health economist Torsten Christensen, who led the research at Novo Nordisk A/S in Denmark.

The study predicted that shorter people could increase their quality of life by 6.1 per cent if their height was increased by 7cm for men and 6cm for women.

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