Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) who are shorter in height are more likely to die in the hospital than taller ones who have much better survival rates finds a new study. The study showed that the average-height man's odds of dying are just over 22 per cent but that death risk increases by around 30 per cent for the very shortest. In addition women see their death rates jump from 17.1 to 24.1 per cent if they are shorter as per the study published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine. The reason shorter people may be at a higher
