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Women with red hair worse off health-wise

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Red hair is associated with pain sensitivity, and more so in women than in men. Hair redness may thus interact with a female-specific factor. We tested this hypothesis on a large sample of Czech and Slovak respondents. They were asked about the natural redness and darkness of their hair, their natural eye color, their physical and mental health (24 categories), and other personal attributes (height, weight, number of children, lifelong number of sexual partners, frequency of smoking). We found that red-haired women did worse than other women in ten health categories and better in only three. In particular, they were more prone to colorectal, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer. Cancer risk increased steadily with increasing hair redness except for the reddest shade. Red-haired men showed a balanced pattern of health effects, doing better than other men in three categories and worse in three. Number of children was the only category where both male and female redheads did better than other respondents. Of the “new” hair and eye colors, red hair diverges the most from the ancestral state of black hair and brown eyes. It is the most sexually dimorphic variant, not only in population frequency but also in health outcomes.

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Health status by gender, hair color, and eye color: Red-haired women are the most divergent

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  1. Shari October 17, 2018 Reply

    I am a Red Headed ( bright new copper penny) a Strawberry Blonde, woman with Blue eyes.
    I am very fair complected, use the lightest make that they make. My skin is however beautiful! Still is at age 66. I wish I had time to tell you everything about my life and my body. I am also 0-negative.
    I am difficult to sedate. I have numerous health problems. I have had lots of accidents, not my fault but I get to live with horrible Pain.
    I have the sticky blood syndrome, APS. Suffered misscarriges, Pulmonary Embolisms and DVTs. Balance problems, open Heart Surgery twice. Plus stomach, bowels, female, asthma, osteoarthritis, and shingles that reoccure for no apparent reason. I’ve had Valley Fever, Scarlett Fever and most childhood diseases.
    To top that off I get HIVE’S at the drop of a hat. I have been tested and am positive for 57 allergies plus about 25 medicine allergies. Boy, oh boy, am I a mess!
    I am fortunate to have two grown children. A son and daughter. They are miracles! They both have 0- blood and allergies, breathing problems and daughter has female problems including breast cancer.
    My medication list is horribly long. The allergy is scary because antibiotics are few and far between that can be used to treat me.
    The worst part; no grandchildren!
    I would love some fair complected grand’s.
    My genetics are rare.
    I feel like I know things before they happen. I either get a sudden premonition or dream exactly what is going to happen.
    I’ve wrote down thing’s about how a house deal would close, a job or selling a home. Those things early floored my son until he too started getting the same feeling’s.
    I was always ahead of everything in school. Had lots of interests. Lots of hobbies that come naturally. I am a voracious reader. Hungry for knowledge.
    I sometimes wonder why things are difficult for other people when it’s easy for me to reason out the answers.

  2. Dr Cheryl Arutt October 19, 2018 Reply

    Not a very scientific (or balanced) summary. For example, what were the other two categories in which red haired women did “better” than other women? And what is the operational definition of “better”? Worse than average in 10. and better in three (average, then, in the other 11?) Well it probably matters what the categories are, and whether the study design is valid. Yes, I am a red-haired social scientist who likes a well designed study and rigorous summary.

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