Infographic Archives | CircusTall.com — Very tall pop culture writing at its funniest https://www.circustall.com/category/infographic/ Embrace your vertical endowment with original pop culture writing about very tall people—tall men, tall women, tall girls, tall guys—and the world they inhabit. Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:59:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 131019943 Aggressive Prostate Cancer Targets Tall Guys, Says Depressing Study https://www.circustall.com/2017/09/11/aggressive-prostate-cancer-targets-tall/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:13:13 +0000 https://www.circustall.com/?p=600 As if owning skinny jeans wasn’t already a problem. Haroon Siddique, reporting for The Guardian: British scientists found that every 10cm* increment in height increased the chance of developing high-grade prostate cancer by 21% and the risk of death from the disease by 17%. The 141,000 men followed by the nearly 14-year study were all […]

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As if owning skinny jeans wasn’t already a problem.


Haroon Siddique, reporting for The Guardian:

British scientists found that every 10cm* increment in height increased the chance of developing high-grade prostate cancer by 21% and the risk of death from the disease by 17%.

The 141,000 men followed by the nearly 14-year study were all white guys, so you extremely tall non-white dudes still have a shot at height not being at cancer risk for you. Or to put it another way, they have no meaningful data on you at all.

*American translation: 10cm is just under 4 inches.

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