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STUDY: Tall People At Increased Risk For Deadly Blood Clots

African American woman exercising outsideBeing tall may increase the risk of blood clots in the leg veins or lungs in both men and women, according to a new Swedish study that examined government health records of nearly 3 million people.

While other research has noted the correlation, this study is unique because it only included siblings, minimizing the chance that environmental factors affected the results.

“Socioeconomic factors like education and poverty can confound results. One way to adjust for that is a sibling design because they share the same socioeconomic background,” said the study’s lead researcher Bengt Zöller, M.D., of Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden.

Researchers looked at rates of a condition called venous thromboembolism, in which a blood clot occurs in the deep veins of the leg, known as deep vein thrombosis, or in one or more arteries in the lungs, known as a pulmonary embolism.

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Venous thromboembolism affects 300,000 to 600,000 Americans each year, contributing to the deaths of tens of thousands, according to statistics from the American Heart Association.

Health records were only available for men who enlisted in the military and pregnant women. Still, the results were dramatic.

In the study, published Tuesday in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, nearly 2 percent of the 96,813 men who were 6-foot-2 and taller suffered venous thromboembolism. That’s more than twice the rate—0.7 percent—among the 2,579 men under 5-foot-2.

The danger of developing venous thromboembolism jumps with pregnancy, as hormones change and blood flow to the legs is reduced by the fetus’ weight pressuring veins. Yet the research found that occurrence of clots was even greater in tall, pregnant women. Short women under 5-foot-1 were 70 percent less likely to have a clot than women 6-foot-1 and taller.

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Risk climbed steadily with increasing height in both men and women.

Zöller said the link between height and venous thromboembolism in women hasn’t been widely studied, so the data’s strength surprised him. “It was even consistent in women,” he noted.

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