[HN Gopher] Impact of height and weight on life span
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       Impact of height and weight on life span
        
       Author : elsewhen
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-07-17 18:19 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
        
       | Gunax wrote:
       | Admittedly this is tough for me to read, as there is nothing I
       | can do to change my height.
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       | Of course they are trying to answer the entropy question. I find
       | page 264 particularly interesting [1].
       | 
       | So basically, breast cancer isn't caused by obesity per se. But
       | just _having more breast cells_. Or atleast that 's my
       | interpretation.
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       | [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2393304/?page=6
        
       | mac3n wrote:
       | the Abstract refers to " data for decreased groups" and "a study
       | of 1679 decreased men and women".
       | 
       | - i may be in decline, but at least i'm not decreased
        
       | alphachloride wrote:
       | This article is from 1992. For those in this field, has there
       | been further development on this topic?
        
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