In the USA, experts of the University of California found that high growth in humans may be a marker of predisposition to the emergence of certain types of cancer.
As reported in a press release наMedicalXpress, scientists analyzed data from several studies conducted in Norway, Korea, Austria and Sweden. In these studies, researchers examined the relationship between growth and susceptibility to oncological diseases. Having studied the obtained data, the American experts concluded: both men and women high growth is correlated with an increased risk of cancer.
“Women have every 10 centimeters of height increase the risk of cancer by 13 percent,males – 11%” – calculated by the researchers.
They were able to determine I with specific types of malignant neoplasms, the occurrence of which is closely associated with growth. According to scientists, with the height of the human body correlate skin cancer, thyroid cancer, colon, uterine and breast, is only 18 types. Do tall people think they are much more active growth hormones, which leads to more cell divisions, and with it the increased chance of mutations that trigger the growth of tumors.
Earlier Magicforum wrote about the fact that scientists have been named the most effective ways to prevent cancer.