# Heart attack ear lob, skin tags and rectal polyps **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 15, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384 "2000-08-15T01:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![insider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@insider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insider)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/1 "2000-08-15T01:23:38Z")
Is there any truth to the heart attack ear lobe and skin tags and rectal polyps? Any help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/2 "2000-08-15T01:30:30Z")
Ok , is it just me or does anybody understand that question ? **insider** could you add some more details for a overtired Euro. poster . 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/3 "2000-08-15T01:39:45Z")
I’m a wide-awake American poster, and I’m just as confused as you are. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/4 "2000-08-15T01:41:40Z")
Amazingly, I do understand part of it. My uncle is always saying that people with long earlobes are more prone to heart attacks. (Or is it less prone?) I’ll try to find out. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/5 "2000-08-15T01:46:48Z")
I had heard it as a crease in your ear lobe indicates high probability of coronary disease in your future. Skin tags can be precursors of skin cancer, just as colonic polyps sometimes go malignant. Of course, it would help if the OP phrased his question as a complete thought. As it stands I would have to answer that there really are such things as heart attacks, ear lobes, skin tags, and rectal polyps. And I do not see how that would be a helpful response. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/6 "2000-08-15T02:01:08Z")
[this site](http://www.presspack.com/icpc/abstracts_970702_10.htm) speaks of a correlation between earlobe creases and the risk of hemorrhagic stroke. Other sites mention earlobe creases in relation to heart disease. As for skin tags, [this site says](http://answermd.com/HealthAndVitality/skintags_colon.html) > [@](#): > > A: Skin tags are small fleshy projections that appear around the neck, underarms, breasts, and groin areas. They usually appear on people over age 30, and may become more numerous with age. They are slightly pigmented with a tan color to them. > > Skin tags are … related to intestinal polyps, which have been linked to cancer of the colon. Those people with excessive or large mounts of skin tags, or people with a family history of skin tags, intestinal polyps or colon cancer, should see a doctor for screening.-Dr. Karl R. Beutner, Director of Dermatology, Vallejo, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Flyboyslc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Flyboyslc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyboyslc)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/7 "2000-08-15T02:02:13Z")
-Slight hijack- What in hell’s a skin tag? -end hijack- ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack-ear-lob-skin-tags-and-rectal-polyps/29384/8 "2000-08-15T02:37:18Z")
**Cecil Adams** , briefly, on [creased,hairy ears and the heart](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_124.html).