I read this article, if your ring finger is longer than your index finger. Those people that do have a higher risk of arthritis. Mine are on both hands.mine is not. what kind of arthritis was it talking about in the article.it didnt say I've heard that a high ring finger to index finger ratio correlates with a higher risk of autism (including "autism spectrum disorders"/ Asperger's, etc) but I've not heard the association with RA. My ring finger is quite a bit longer than my index finger. My ring finger is quite a bit longer than my index finger also.
By staff writers
NEWS.com.au
January 04, 2008 11:08am
HAVING a ring finger longer than an index finger nearly doubles the chance of developing osteoarthritis in the knees - and women are the most at risk - according to a new study.
While size differences between people’s ring fingers and index fingers has been linked to sexual and physical ability and performance in university exams, researchers at the University of Nottingham have now discovered that arthritis could be connected to the hands.
The researchers found that people with the common male trait of having index fingers that were shorter than ring fingers - which was called type 3 - were also more likely to develop osteoarthritis in the hips.
“The type 3 finger pattern was associated with knee osteoarthritis, and the risk was greater in women than in men,” the researchers said in an article in the Arthritis and Rheumatism journal.
“The risk of knee osteoarthritis in participants with type 3 finger patterns was nearly twice that for participants without this pattern.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam/Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Children with autism have a relatively shorter index finger (2D) compared with their ring finger (4D). It is often presumed that the 2D:4D ratio is associated with fetal testosterone levels and that high fetal testosterone levels could play a role in the aetiology of autism. It is unknown whether this effect is specific to autism. In this study, 2D:4D ratios of 144 males aged 6 to 14 years (mean age 9y 1 mo [SD 1y 11 mo]) with psychiatric disorders were compared with those of 96 males aged 6 to 13 years from the general population (mean age 9y 1 mo [SD 1y 10 mo]). Psychiatric disorders were divided into autism/Asperger syndrome (n=24), pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS; n=26), attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)/oppositional defiant disorder (ODD; n=68), and anxiety disorders (n=26). Males with autism/Asperger syndrome (p<0.05) and ADHD/ODD (p<0.05) had significantly lower (though not significantly; p=0.52) ratios than males with an anxiety disorder, and males with autism/Asperger syndrome had lower ratios than those in the comparison group. These results indicated that higher fetal testosterone levels may play a role, not only in the origin of autism, but also in the aetiology of PDD-NOS and of ADHD/ODD. Males with anxiety disorders might have been exposed to lower prenatal testosterone levels.
My ring finger is shorter than my index finger.
My ring finers are both much longer than my index finger, but I thought that was pretty common.