Heightened Height Loss Increases Mortality in Men - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today
Heightened Height Loss Increases Mortality in Men - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today: "LONDON, Dec. 11 -- Excess shrinking as men age accelerates the risk of an earlier death, found investigators here.
Action Points
* Explain to interested patients that loss of height commonly occurs as people age, but note that this study suggests excessive loss of height has health consequences, including an increased risk of death.
* Point out that it's not understood what causes the effect.
A longitudinal study carried out here showed that men who lose three centimeters or more of height (about 1.18 inches) as they age are at an increased risk of death, compared to men who lose less than a centimeter, according to S. Goya Wannamethee, Ph.D., of the Royal Free and University College Medical School here.
The excess mortality was largely attributable to cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and other causes, but not to cancer, Dr. Wannamethee and colleagues reported in the Dec. 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine."
Action Points
* Explain to interested patients that loss of height commonly occurs as people age, but note that this study suggests excessive loss of height has health consequences, including an increased risk of death.
* Point out that it's not understood what causes the effect.
A longitudinal study carried out here showed that men who lose three centimeters or more of height (about 1.18 inches) as they age are at an increased risk of death, compared to men who lose less than a centimeter, according to S. Goya Wannamethee, Ph.D., of the Royal Free and University College Medical School here.
The excess mortality was largely attributable to cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and other causes, but not to cancer, Dr. Wannamethee and colleagues reported in the Dec. 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine."
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