Researchers of a new study have found a link between a patient’s height and odds of survival in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital. The study, published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine on Dec. 23, show that shorter patients in ICUs are more likely to die during treatment compared with taller patients. Hannah Wunsch, from Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, and colleagues looked at the data of patients who were admitted to 210 ICUs in the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2015. They found that among more than 400,000 critically ill patients, the shortest ones who stood 4 feet and 6 inches were more likely to die in the hospital compared with the tallest ones who stood 6 feet and 6 inches. The risk of dying in the shortest male patients was 29 percent higher than that of the tallest patients. In female patients, the death risk was 24 percent higher.

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