What does our feeling of well-being depend on? Of the health? From the economic income? Yes, but also height , according to an article published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Clinical Endocrinology .
In the study, carried out in the United Kingdom, about 15,000 adults responded to a questionnaire that did not measure their "real" health, but how healthy they felt . To do this, he analyzed five aspects related to well-being: mobility, autonomy, habitual activities, pain and anxiety / depression. The results revealed that the shortest people (less than 162 centimeters in men and less than 151 centimeters in women) reported feeling worse physically and mentally than respondents with normal or above average height.
The most interesting thing, according to the researcher Torsten Christensen, is that it has been proven that an increase in height of 3 centimeters would have a positive impact on the quality of life of a person of reduced stature, and yet it would not affect another individual with a normal height. Christensen believes that further research is needed on how our height and well-being are related before taking action.
Society for Endocrinology (www.endocrinology.org)
