Left-handedness and mortality

M.E. Salive, J.M. Guralnik and R.J. Glynn

American Journal of Public Health, 1993, vol. 83, issue 2, 265-267

Abstract: We examined mortality associated with handedness in two ways. A simulation using national data suggests that lower mean age at death among left-handed persons, previously offered as evidence of higher mortality, can be explained exclusively by the age distribution of laterality. Second, empiric evidence from a 6-year cohort study of 3774 older adults from East Boston, Massachusetts, demonstrates that left-handedness is not associated with mortality (relative odds = 1.04, 95% confidence interval = 0.79, 1.36).

Date: 1993
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