Friday, 26 September 2014

Height Influences Risk of Esophageal Cancer

A new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology says that taller individuals are less likely to develop esophageal cancer. The former is the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. "Individuals in the lowest quartile of height (under 5'7" for men and 5'2" for women) were roughly twice as likely as individuals in the highest quartile of height (taller than 6' for men and 5'5" for women) to have Barrett's ...

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