Tall and thin not so great for lung disease

Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 00:00 in Health & Medicine

Tall, thin women face a greater risk of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), cousins of the organism that causes tuberculosis, according to researchers. Women with NTM infections also showed a weakened immune response.

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