Short People Got No Reason...

As if I needed another reason to hate being short, besides never finding shoes in my size, long sleeve shirts that don't fit, and always having new pants tailored by my dry cleaner, I found another potential reason to raise a fig to my short sticks.  Short legs and adult-onset diabetes have a correlation.  Now, according to the article, it was leg length to height ratio that mattered, but they don't say how they measured the leg.  Inseam?  Hip?  Femur length?  I need to know!  The abstract says this:

RESULTS—Shorter height and leg length, and lower leg length–to–height ratio, were associated with higher percent body fat, especially in women. Lower leg length–to–height ratio was associated with greater insulin resistance estimated by HOMA-IR. In multinomial regression models adjusting for potential confounders, including percent body fat, the relative prevalence of type 2 diabetes per 1-SD lower values in height, leg length, and leg length–to–height ratio were 1.10 (95% CI 0.94–0.29), 1.17 (0.98–1.39), and 1.19 (1.02–1.39), respectively.

CONCLUSIONS—Our study supports the hypothesis that adult markers of prepubertal growth, especially leg length–to–height ratio, are associated with adiposity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes in the general U.S. population.

If I want to read the whole thing, I have to PAY $12.00!  Right now, I don't know for sure if my leg length to height ration is low, high, average, or nice legs yowza!  My dad already developed diabetes, but he had a period of rapid weight gain after he retired, which increased his risk dramatically.  So I only have one risk factor in the positive right now.  Geez, another thing to weigh us short people down.