On 2017 Nov 22, thomas samaras commented:

Taller people have higher risk of atrial fibrillation, blood clots, pulmonary infarction and abdominal aortic aneurysms. The heart problems of shorter people are not due to inherent biological factors. For example, CHD was rare before the industrial revolution and people were shorter then. In addition, during early 1900s, CHD was low and we were shorter in the US and UK. Women are shorter than men and have lower death rates from heart disease. In addition, many short populations studied in the 20th Century were found to be free of CHD and stroke. Some possible confounders are BMI differences, socioeconomic status, catch-up growth of lower birth weight infants, childhood illnesses which stunt growth and promote adult health problems and poorer quality diets. In addition, shorter people often are more overweight than taller people. Three recent studies by Sohn, Shapiro, and Elsayed found shorter people had lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.(The Sohn finding for lower CVD was,however, non-significant.)

On 2017 Nov 22, thomas samaras commented:

Taller people have higher risk of atrial fibrillation, blood clots, pulmonary infarction and abdominal aortic aneurysms. The heart problems of shorter people are not due to inherent biological factors. For example, CHD was rare before the industrial revolution and people were shorter then. In addition, during early 1900s, CHD was low and we were shorter in the US and UK. Women are shorter than men and have lower death rates from heart disease. In addition, many short populations studied in the 20th Century were found to be free of CHD and stroke. Some possible confounders are BMI differences, socioeconomic status, catch-up growth of lower birth weight infants, childhood illnesses which stunt growth and promote adult health problems and poorer quality diets. In addition, shorter people often are more overweight than taller people. Three recent studies by Sohn, Shapiro, and Elsayed found shorter people had lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.(The Sohn finding for lower CVD was,however, non-significant.)