Was browsing through Yahoo! news as usual when I came across an interesting headline: "Short height linked to increased suicide risk."
For those too lazy or simply haven't got the time to read the article in its entirety, I have cut & paste some excerpts from it;
In a study of records for nearly 1.3 million Swedish men, the investigators found that for every 2 inches a man gained in height, his suicide risk dipped by 9 percent. Overall, the shortest men in the study were about twice as likely as the tallest men to commit suicide...Since I'm rather vertically challenged as compared to most of my peers, this is indeed a cause of worry for me. However, I don't think I'll be jumping off tall buildings or taking an overdose of sleeping pills anytime soon =p
... the researchers found, just over 3,000 men committed suicide, with the risk dipping as a man's height climbed. Factors such as year of birth, education, parents' incomes and a record of psychiatric illness at the time of conscription did not explain the height-suicide link...
... several potential explanations; Psychological stress and a troubled family life, they note, may both impair a child's growth and raise the risk of suicide later on. There is also some evidence that poor weight gain in infancy is a risk factor for suicide in adulthood...
...short men suffer some level of stigmatization or discrimination that makes them more vulnerable to suicidal behavior.
