{"id":33051,"date":"2017-04-13T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=33051"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:03:12","slug":"are-you-a-tall-woman-you-are-at-risk-of-this-medical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/are-you-a-tall-woman-you-are-at-risk-of-this-medical-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"ARE YOU A TALL WOMAN? YOU ARE AT RISK OF THIS MEDICAL CONDITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Heart-Disease.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Heart-Disease.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Heart-Disease.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Heart-Disease-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Heart-Disease-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Heart-Disease-174x98.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most women wish they had long legs but a research presented at EuroPrevent 2017 suggests there may be a hidden health risk for taller women according to a study published in the <strong><em>Medical Daily<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, women over 5 feet 6 inches are about three times more likely to have a stroke than shorter women.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers claim the larger heart of taller women can cause irregular and abnormal heart rhythms thereby increasing their chances of having stroke.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also advice taller women to look after their weight as weighing over 180 pounds can also add to the risk of taller women having stroke.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers analysed different factors that can put a woman at risk for atrial fibrillation or an irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, strokes and heart failure and found a woman&#8217;s size (height and weight) is the biggest factor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found that bigger women have a greater risk of atrial fibrillation,&#8221; study author Annika Rosengren said as quoted on <strong><em>Medical Daily<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a stepwise elevation in risk with increasing body size.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The group with the highest body surface area had nearly three times the risk as those with the lowest body surface area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study team analysed data from 1.5 million women over the course of 30 years to arrive at this conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Women over 5 feet 6 inches are thereby advised to watch their weight as weighing more than 180 pounds increases their risk of having stroke.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Phil<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most women wish they had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2688,2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33052,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33051\/revisions\/33052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}