The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...

Conventional wisdom has it that being tall is advantageous. The problem with conventional wisdom is that it’s often wrong. There are studies that correlate height with happiness and higher salaries, ...

How tall you are might raise your risk for certain diseases. July 25, 2013— -- intro: Height has been linked to a range of health problems, from Alzheimer's and heart disease to multiple cancers.

BMI is a tool that uses height and weight to estimate a healthy weight range, but it has limitations because it doesn’t consider body composition, muscle mass, or differences among racial and ethnic ...

Height is a classic polygenic quantitative trait with a high level of heritability. As it is a simple and stable parameter to measure, height is a model for both common, complex disorders and ...